fatten up

英 [ˈfætn ʌp]

美 [ˈfætn ʌp]

使（企业等）壮大; 使（利润）增厚; 育肥; 催肥; 养胖

柯林斯词典

• See also:They fattened up ducks and geese...You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.fatten

英英释义

verb

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

双语例句

• Mothers usually fatten their children up with milk.
  母亲们通常给孩子们吃牛奶好让他们长胖。
• Half a million sandhill cranes pause on the Platte River in Nebraska to fatten up on corn waste, worms, and other food in nearby fields.
  五十万只沙丘鹤在内布拉斯加州的普拉特河上停留，寻觅附近田里剩下的玉米、蠕虫和其它食物，给自己增加脂肪。
• The witch wanted to fatten the children up so that she could eat them!
  巫婆想把这两个孩子养得肥肥胖胖的，然后再吃掉他们！
• Force-fed, they are kept in cages which restrain them from moving about, so as to fatten them up and make the meat comparably tender.
  填鸭它们被关在笼子里，禁止移动，从而使它们的肉吃起来鲜嫩。
• She attempts to fatten her children up with potatoes, spaghetti, and creamed dishes.
  她试图用土豆、通心粉和加奶油的菜使孩子们壮实起来。
• She was feeding us all the time because she wanted to fatten us up so that she could eat us!
  她一直喂我们吃东西是因为她想把我们养胖再吃掉我们！
• 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。
• Before long, farmers gathered the baby oysters, transplanted them into other waters to speed up their growth, then transplanted them once more into another body of water to fatten them up.
  不久之后，农夫将这些小牡蛎收集起来，把它们移种进其他的水域加快其生长，然后再次将它们移种进另外的水域以使其肥壮起来。
• Now go and get a burger and fatten yourself up!
  现在去吃个汉堡，把自己养胖吧！
• All I'm suggesting is stop making the sugary drinks the means in which we hydrate ( including diet, they fatten you up too).
  我建议的只是停止将含糖饮料作为补充水分的方法（包括节食，它们也会让你增肥）。