gobble是什么意思,gobble怎么用
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gobble
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📰 外刊例句
They gobble up 3.4m tonnes a year, a ladle a day for each person. 他们每年吞食340万吨,每人每天一汤勺。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《时代周刊》
📖 基本释义
[verb] eat (something) hurriedly and noisily
[动词] 匆忙作响地吃(某物)
💡 深入解读
Eat it properly, don't gobble!Gobble 是一个与 gabble (急促而含混不清地说)十分形似且容易混淆的单词,主要用来表示“贪婪地吃、狼吞虎咽、大口吞吃”,即非常快且发出声响地吃东西,给人一种粗野或贪吃的感觉,比如:注意吃相,不要狼吞虎咽!
Pete gobbled all the beef stew.皮特狼吞虎咽,把炖牛肉吃了个精光。
At the same time, large railroad companies gobbled up smaller ones.由此而来的短语动词 gobble sth↔up 则常作非正式用语使用,除了自然引申指“很快消耗掉金钱等物”外,还被用来喻指“吞并较小的公司、机构等”,比如:与此同时,大型铁路公司吞并了较小的铁路公司。
除此之外, gobble 还有一个拟声而来的动词含义指雄火鸡“咯咯叫”,有首感恩节歌曲就取名为“Gobble Gobble”。
📚 名著用例
Between the two evils, it was better to have Scarlett wear an afternoon dress at a morning barbecue than to have her gobble like a hog. 比较起来,与其让思嘉到野宴上去狼吞虎咽,还不如任凭她在早上穿起下午的衣裳来算了。
— 出自《美国作家玛格丽特·米切尔(Margaret Mitchell)创作的长篇小说《飘》( Gone with the Wind )。》
🔍 同近义词
- devour: eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly
- gulp: swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly
- guzzle: eat or drink (something) greedily

