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gobbling

/gob-uhl/US // ˈgɒb əl //UK // (ˈɡɒbəl) //

狼吞虎咽,狼吞虎咽的,大口大口地吃,大口吃肉

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gob·bled, gob·bling.

    • : to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
    • : to seize upon eagerly: After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gob·bled, gob·bling.

    • : to eat hastily.

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Examples

  • With “Schitt’s Creek” gobbling up comedy awards, that left “Insecure” and creator Issa Rae empty-handed Sunday.

  • He drills threes, draws fouls, gobbles rebounds, manipulates pick and rolls and places whomever he’s defending in a vice grip with Defensive Player of the Year-caliber intensity.

  • China’s “champion eaters” have attracted a dedicated following for their ability to gobble down vast quantities of food.

  • For one thing, it would have been unusual to come across a whole dead animal that no other predator had gobbled up, and the ichthyosaur would have had to shovel down the huge meal on the seafloor — tough for an air-breathing creature.

  • “This philosophy of representation theory has gone on to gobble vast tracts of mathematics in the second half of the 20th century,” Williamson told me in an interview.

  • Rank be damned, 45-year-old Badlands still looks hungry to me, and manages to gobble 12 plates in all, with grace.

  • And then, like all firms that want to expand rapidly, it started to gobble up other companies whole.

  • But it is difficult to tell if the inherent salaciousness of the story is the key to what makes this book so easy to gobble up.

  • Chinese conglomerates gobble up American firms, including Starbucks.

  • And finally, on Monday, AT&T announced a $39 billion deal to gobble up T-Mobile and its 46.5 million customers.

  • She aint had time fer ter squeal en needer fer ter grunt 'fo' Brer Wolf gobble 'er up.

  • Then he clutched his hair, and waddled down the corridor, shrieking, and the purple dress began to gobble with her laughter.

  • Once a minute, or oftener, he lets out a gobble, until I get up and throw a shoe or a hairbrush at him.

  • I was about half way across one of these ancient, hobblety-gobble outrages, when I came to grief.

  • With a terrible roar he advanced to gobble up Peach-Prince, when the dog ran behind and bit the oni in the leg.