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gobble vt.狼吞虎咽；很快用完；发出咯咯叫声n.咯咯叫声 (1) 因为还饿，他又狼吞虎咽地吃了第二块三明治。(2) 她如饥似渴地收集一切有关的信息。(3) 政府似乎大笔大笔地乱花纳税人的税款。 You’ve probably been told that gobbling your food is impolite. However, maybe you can get away with it if you impress your dining companions with some interesting facts about this word’s history. Gobble comes from an Old French word meaning “a mouthful” or “a lump.” It’s related to gob, a slang term for “mouth” in the UK.

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英 ['ɡɒbl] 美 ['ɡɑːbl] (1) As he was still hungry, he gobbled up a second sandwich.(2) She gobbled up all the relevant information.(3) The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers' money. To gobble is to eat quickly — really quickly. When you gobble your dinner, you hardly even chew your food. 1[VERB 动词]贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽 If you gobble food, you eat it quickly and greedily.   [V n]  [V n P]  [Also V P n (not pron)]Pete gobbled all the beef stew.皮特狼吞虎咽，把炖牛肉吃了个精光。Gobble down and gobble up mean the same as gobble .gobble down及gobble up同gobbleThere were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up.河里有吃人的危险动物。相关词组：gobble down gobble up

英语单词	gobble
英美音标	英 ['ɡɒbl] 美 ['ɡɑːbl]
中文释义	vt.狼吞虎咽；很快用完；发出咯咯叫声 n.咯咯叫声
英语例句	(1) As he was still hungry, he gobbled up a second sandwich. (2) She gobbled up all the relevant information. (3) The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers' money.
中文例句	(1) 因为还饿，他又狼吞虎咽地吃了第二块三明治。 (2) 她如饥似渴地收集一切有关的信息。 (3) 政府似乎大笔大笔地乱花纳税人的税款。
vocabulary简明	To gobble is to eat quickly — really quickly. When you gobble your dinner, you hardly even chew your food.
vocabulary扩展	You’ve probably been told that gobbling your food is impolite. However, maybe you can get away with it if you impress your dining companions with some interesting facts about this word’s history. Gobble comes from an Old French word meaning “a mouthful” or “a lump.” It’s related to gob, a slang term for “mouth” in the UK.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽 If you gobble food, you eat it quickly and greedily. [V n] [V n P] [Also V P n (not pron)] Pete gobbled all the beef stew. 皮特狼吞虎咽，把炖牛肉吃了个精光。 Gobble down and gobble up mean the same as gobble .gobble down及gobble up同gobble There were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up. 河里有吃人的危险动物。相关词组： gobble down gobble up

Gobble Gobbled Eat Quickly [V N 英 ɡɒbl] 美