
狼吞虎咽;贪婪地抓住
The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers' money.
政府似乎大笔大笔地乱花纳税人的税款。
Don't wait for health care costs to gobble up your profits.
不要等待医疗费用,吞噬你的利润。
That increases the number of shares investors have to gobble up.
这增加了投资者必须吞下的股票数量。
The resulting bubbles pen in prey fish, which the whales gobble up.
由此产生的泡沫将猎物围起来,于是座头鲸便狼吞虎咽吃掉猎物。
|snarf/bolt down;狼吞虎咽;贪婪地抓住
"Gobble up" 是英语中常见的动词短语,具有以下两层核心含义:
1. 字面含义:快速贪婪地进食
指像火鸡(gobble本意为火鸡叫声)般急促且不雅地吞食食物。牛津词典将其定义为"to eat something very quickly, especially in a noisy or rude way"(来源:Oxford Learner's Dictionaries)。例如:
The children gobbled up their pancakes before school.
2. 比喻含义:大量消耗或吞并
在商业与经济领域特指:
该短语的生动拟声特性使其在新闻报道与商业分析中被高频使用,既保留动物性进食的原始意象,又精准传达现代社会经济活动中的资源争夺态势。
“Gobble up”是一个英语短语动词,其含义和用法如下:
字面意义:指快速且贪婪地吃掉大量食物,常译为“狼吞虎咽”。例如:
孩子饿极了,几分钟就把食物一扫而空()。
- 发音:英式[ˈgɔbəl ʌp],美式[ˈɡɑbəl ʌp]()。
比喻扩展:
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