gobbling

英 [ˈɡɒblɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡɑːblɪŋ]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 贪婪地吃; (火鸡)咯咯叫
gobble的现在分词

COCA.41663

柯林斯词典

• VERB 贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽
  If yougobblefood, you eat it quickly and greedily.
  1. Pete gobbled all the beef stew.
     皮特狼吞虎咽，把炖牛肉吃了个精光。
  2. Gobble downandgobble upmean the same asgobble.
     gobble down及gobble up同gobble
  3. There were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up.
     河里有吃人的危险动物。

双语例句

• Thus, non-western countries have spent the past two decades recycling that capital through western financial centres, gobbling up Treasury bonds, buying debt derivatives, conducting IPOs and so on.
  因此，非西方国家过去20年一直在通过西方金融中心对资金进行循环利用大举买入美国国债、购买债务衍生品、进行IPO等等。
• Third, institutional investors, wanting to cash in on rising rental rates, have started gobbling up foreclosed homes at fire sale prices and then renting the homes back to the foreclosed owners rather than flipping them for a quick profit.
  第三，希望靠日益上涨的租金获利的机构投资者开始大举买入止赎法拍屋，以大额折扣买入这些住宅后返租给它们的原主人，而不是转卖出手谋求迅速获利。
• While online shoppers were gobbling up e-deals on Cyber Monday, Amazon once again demonstrated its appetite for capital.
  就在消费者们忙着在感恩节后的“网购星期一”（CyberMonday）活动中血拼时，亚马逊（Amazon）再次展现了它对资本的胃口。
• They are gobbling up mobile devices, PCs, routers and other technology gear at a rapid rate.
  他们正在快速大量地购入移动设备、个人电脑、路由器和其他科技设备。
• Whereas RIM lacked the right product, Nokia actually developed the sorts of devices that consumers are gobbling up today. It just didn't bring them to market.
  RIM的问题是缺乏合适的产品，而诺基亚实际上是开发出了今天消费者疯狂抢购的几类终端，只是没有把这些终端引入市场。
• If your money is stowed in a "safe" investment, like a low-yielding savings or money market account, you'll never see how inflation is gobbling up virtually all of your return.
  如果你的钱集中在所谓的“安全”的投资中，例如低回报的存款或者货币市场基金，你将远不会了解通是如何在实质上吞噬你所有的回报的。
• Emerging firms are advancing on a greater number of fronts than the Japanese did30 years ago and also advancing much faster, gobbling up Western rivals.
  新兴企业比之30年前的日本，在更多的前沿领域都有进展，而且进步的速度快得多，很可能吞并其西方的竞争对手。
• Either way, the net result is a shortage of T-bills, particularly since banks and clearing houses are also gobbling up T-bills for regulatory purposes.
  不管是哪一种情形，最终后果都是美国国债供应紧缺，尤其是由于银行和结算所出于监管要求考虑，也在抢购美国国债。
• Real-estate is gobbling up20% of new bank loans.
  房地产攫取了20%的中国新增贷款。
• Gobbling up the apple in his hand with the whole body lying on the bed in the ward, he felt quite satisfied and moved by his sister coming to see him because he accidentally broke his leg.
  他意外地摔伤了腿，姐姐来医院看他了。他躺在病房的床上，大口吃着苹果，感到真是很满足，也颇为感动。