fatten

英 [ˈfætn]

美 [ˈfætn]

v.  (使)长胖，长肥; (尤指动物宰杀前)育肥

现在分词：fattening　过去分词：fattened　过去式：fattened　第三人称单数：fattens　

GRETEM8

BNC.15231 / COCA.15932

短语动词

牛津词典

verb

• （使）长胖，长肥；（尤指动物宰杀前）育肥
  to make sb/sth fatter, especially an animal before killing it for food; to become fatter
  1. The piglets are taken from the sow to be fattened for market.
     这些小猪被从母猪身边带走，好育肥上市。
  2. She's very thin after her illness─but we'll soon fatten her up.
     她病后瘦得很——不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (动物)长膘，变肥;催肥，养肥
  If an animalis fattened, or if itfattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more.
  1. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...
     喂肥牛群以宰杀。
  2. The creature continued to grow and fatten.
     这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
• VERB 使(企业)发财;使(利润)增长;为…牟利
  If you say that someoneis fatteningsomething 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.
  1. 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。
  2. Fatten upmeans the same asfatten.
     fatten up 同 fatten
  3. 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。

英英释义

verb

• make fat or plump
  1. We will plump out that poor starving child
  Synonym:fatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten outfatten up

双语例句

• The prices of corn, used to fatten animals, and meat and poultry, are also rising.
  用作动物饲料的玉米，以及肉类和禽肉类的价格也在不断上涨。
• But the giant panda can't fatten up enough to hibernate.
  但大熊猫无法积累足够的脂肪以备冬眠。
• A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results.
  一条饥饿的狼想把鸡养肥来做炖鸡，却产生了意想不到的结果。
• I gave them a description of the way I managed the goats, and directions to milk and fatten them, and to make both butter and cheese.
  我又把我管理山羊的办法，以及挤羊奶、使羊肥壮、做奶油和干酪的方法告诉他们。
• We fatten other creatures so that they can feed us, and we fatten ourselves to ultimately feed maggots.
  我们喂肥了其他动物给自己受用，再喂肥了自己给蛆受用。
• Your article seems rather thin in places; Can you fatten it out a little?
  你的文章在某些地方略显空洞；你能把它充实一点吗？
• The creature continued to grow and fatten.
  这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
• Once I fatten the book with more diagrams and images the wife edits the book.
  有一次我育肥的书籍，更多的图表和图片的妻子修改这本书。
• In the summer it is harder to catch seals, so before summer arrives, the bears eat as much as they can to fatten up, then live off the fat in their bodies.
  在夏季，它是很难捕捉海豹，所以夏季到来之前，熊大量吃因为它们可以用来催肥了，然后吃了他们的身体脂肪。
• Most hill farmers cannot fatten their lambs off in their first summer.
  在羊羔生下来的第一个夏季，大多数山地农户都无法把它们养肥。