gobble up
英语[编辑]
动词[编辑]
gobble up (第三人称单数简单现在时 gobbles up,现在分词 gobbling up,一般过去时及过去分词 gobbled up)
- (及物) (很快地)消耗,用掉,吞噬
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady:
- supper gobbled up in haste
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (引申义,比喻义) 吞并,吸收,吞噬
- The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.
- 那座城市近年来通过吸收其周围地土地不断扩建。