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fatten v.养肥；使肥胖 (1) 我们把动物关在围栏里把它们养肥。(2) 有些人不要生活必需品和较好的享受，目的是为了可以帮助养肥酒店老板。 A farmer might spend weeks trying to fatten his prize pigs before he sells them for meat, and you may visit relatives who keep cooking you delicious food in an attempt to fatten you up. Figuratively, you can also fatten things like your bank account, by making it larger. Before the 1550s, the verb form of this word was fat — and both fat and fatten come from the Old English word fætt, "fat or plump."

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英 ['fætn] 美 ['fætn] (1) We keep animals in pens to fatten them.(2) Some people deny themselves the necessaries or comforts of life in order that they may be able to help to fatten a publican. To fatten someone is to feed them until they become bigger and fatter. Your grandmother might see a tiny baby and say, "His mother needs to fatten him up!" 1[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](动物)长膘，变肥；催肥，养肥 If an animal is fattened, or if it fattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more.   [be V-ed]  [V]  [Also V n]The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...喂肥牛群以宰杀。The creature continued to grow and fatten.这个家伙继续长大、变肥。2[VERB 动词]使(企业)发财；使(利润)增长；为…牟利 If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of.   [V n]  [V P n (not pron)]  [Also V n P]  [disapproval]  [BUSINESS 商]They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits.他们一直人为地使糖的价格居高不下，以此为公司牟利。Fatten up means the same as fatten .fatten up 同 fattenThe Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale.政府正在用纳税人的钱壮大一家公有企业，再进行私人认购。相关词组：fatten up

英语单词	fatten
英美音标	英 ['fætn] 美 ['fætn]
中文释义	v.养肥；使肥胖
英语例句	(1) We keep animals in pens to fatten them. (2) Some people deny themselves the necessaries or comforts of life in order that they may be able to help to fatten a publican.
中文例句	(1) 我们把动物关在围栏里把它们养肥。 (2) 有些人不要生活必需品和较好的享受，目的是为了可以帮助养肥酒店老板。
vocabulary简明	To fatten someone is to feed them until they become bigger and fatter. Your grandmother might see a tiny baby and say, "His mother needs to fatten him up!"
vocabulary扩展	A farmer might spend weeks trying to fatten his prize pigs before he sells them for meat, and you may visit relatives who keep cooking you delicious food in an attempt to fatten you up. Figuratively, you can also fatten things like your bank account, by making it larger. Before the 1550s, the verb form of this word was fat — and both fat and fatten come from the Old English word fætt, "fat or plump."
柯林斯解释	1 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](动物)长膘，变肥；催肥，养肥 If an animal is fattened, or if it fattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more. [be V-ed] [V] [Also V n] The cattle are being fattened for slaughter... 喂肥牛群以宰杀。 The creature continued to grow and fatten. 这个家伙继续长大、变肥。 2 [VERB 动词]使(企业)发财；使(利润)增长；为…牟利 If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of. [V n] [V P n (not pron)] [Also V n P] [disapproval] [BUSINESS 商] They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits. 他们一直人为地使糖的价格居高不下，以此为公司牟利。 Fatten up means the same as fatten .fatten up 同 fatten The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale. 政府正在用纳税人的钱壮大一家公有企业，再进行私人认购。相关词组： fatten up

Fatten Business Making Word Fat [Also V N