gobble up

1. PHRASAL VERB 吞并；击垮
   If an organization gobbles up a smaller organization, it takes control of it or destroys it.
   1. Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
      俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。
2. PHRASAL VERB 消耗；耗费
   To gobble up something such as money means to use or waste a lot of it.
   1. The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
      该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
3. See also: gobble

1. Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
   俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。
2. The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
   该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
3. Bacteria in our gut gobble up things like sugars and fatty acids, which they can break down either through respiration or fermentation.
   我们内脏里的细菌会吞噬糖类和脂肪酸一类的物质，它们通过呼吸作用和发酵作用可以分解此类物质。
4. The young inventors note that the somewhat transparent electrode used today in solar cells absorbs as much as 20 percent of available light –– but theirs is significantly more transparent and will gobble up more light.
   这些年轻的发明家解释道，现在在太阳电池中使用的透明电极只能吸收可利用光源的20%，而他们的材料更加透明，可以吸收更多的光。
5. Then, with the cursor blinking before us, he pressed the backspace key, keeping it pinned until there were no more letters for the cursor to gobble up.
   然后，随着光标在屏幕上闪动，他按下了删除键，直到患者名字里的每一个字母在搜索栏被清除得干干净净。
6. The children gobble up their food and rushed out to play.
   孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃完饭就冲出去玩了。
7. But before they could even begin the speeches of welcome they had prepared, the stork stuck his long beak into the water and began to gobble up as many Frogs as he could see.
   可是，还没等他们致准备好了的欢迎词，鹤就把他的长嘴伸进水了，看见青蛙就大口地吞食。
8. Other investors rushed to gobble up investment grade securities or ( if all else failed) sovereign bonds.
   其他投资者则大举买进投资级证券或（如果其它都失败的话）主权债券。
9. Taxpayers essentially would be footing the bill as strong banks gobble up their weaker peers.
   因为这样一来，纳税人实际上将为银行业的弱肉强食买单。
10. The enemy will not be able to gobble up the whole of China but will be able to occupy many places for a considerable time.
    敌人不能整个地吞并中国，但是能够相当长期地占领中国的许多地方。
11. So these corrupt and inefficient behemoths continue to gobble up and then squander a good share of the foreign investment and export earnings that come into the country.
    于是这些腐败的、低效的巨兽仍然狼吞虎咽，将境外投资以及出口收益中的优质部分纳入囊中。
12. There has been no shortage of lower-quality paper in this cycle and investors have been willing to gobble up virtually anything on offer, said Merrill.
    美林表示：在本轮周期中，从不缺少低质量债券。实际上，发行的任何债券，投资者都愿意积极抢购。
13. Some students gobble up information as fast as they receive it.
    有些学生接触信息有多快，吸收就有多快。
14. This machine can gobble up work at a quite fantastic rate.
    这台机器能以相当惊人的速度进行工作。
15. Needless to say, the banking industry will insist the mouse is a tiger about to gobble up the world economy.
    不消说，银行业将坚称，这不是一只老鼠，而是一只将吞噬全球经济的猛虎。
16. Others wonder if they should invest in peacocks and praying mantises which, they speculate, will gobble up the little stinkers.
    有些人还想一探究竟，是否应该养殖孔雀或螳螂。他们推测，这些小臭虫会是它们美餐的对象。
17. 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。
18. Just as Chinese companies are using their new-found wealth and the short-term weakness in the west to gobble up important stakes, so the plunge in the Shanghai market could open the door to more aggressive M& A in China by multinationals.
    正如中国企业在利用自身新增财富和西方市场的短期疲软之机贪婪地收购重要股份一样，上海市场的暴跌，可能也会为那些跨国公司更为激进的并购活动开启大门。
19. Only then did he gobble up the food until all he could do was fall asleep.
    他狼吞虎咽地吃了那些食物，接着就去睡觉了。
20. The white cells gobble up the invaders, and the antibodies knock them out.
    白血球吞噬掉这些异物，抗体则将其杀死。
21. Can guide to living the lymphoid factor to synthesize the interferon, the exaltation body inside gobble up the cell to gobble up the ability, strengthen the immunity dint and Resistibilities of the machine body.
    可诱生淋巴因子合成干扰素，提高体内吞噬细胞的吞噬能力，增强机体的免疫力和抵抗力。
22. Imperialist powers always tend to gobble up their weaker neighbors.
    帝国主义强国总是要想兼并弱小的邻国。
23. Stand up to the realistic choice elusion was equal to choose to is gobble up!
    勇敢面对现实选择逃避就等于选择了被吞噬！
24. In exchange, they enrich the soil, pollinate flowers, and gobble up insect pests.
    作为交换，他们丰富的土壤，花授粉，并吞噬害虫。
25. Treasury yields, which drop when investors gobble up U.
    投资者大量吃进国债会导致国债收益率降低。
26. Such bubbles are hard to keep stable for long periods because they naturally gobble up smaller bubbles and grow in size.
    这些气泡很难长时期地保持稳定，因为它们会自然地吞食较小的气泡，然后变大。
27. I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
    我想把房间整个吞下带给贝利，他会帮我分析它、享受它。
28. After watching everyone from Microsoft to Meca Software gobble up online-banking customers, banks have became eager to prove that they're not headed for extinction.
    眼看从微软到麦加软件等公司都大举抢夺联网银行的顾客，银行也开始急于向世人证明他们并非一意等着被市场淘汰。
29. They gobble up capital that China's genuinely private firms could use far more efficiently, amassing bad debts that will eventually cause China big trouble.
    这些大型企业攫取了原本可以让小型企业更加有效利用的资本，同时囤积了会给中国带来大问题的坏债。

verb

1. eat a large amount of food quickly
   1. The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake

   Synonym:    garbage downshovel inbolt down