fatten

fatten音标

英 [ˈfætn]

美 [ˈfætn:]

fatten基本释义

v.养肥；使肥胖

fatten用法及例句

verb

1. make fat or plump

e.g. We will plump out that poor starving child

Synonym: fatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten outfatten up

1. (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.

e.g. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...喂肥牛群以宰杀。e.g. The creature continued to grow and fatten.这个家伙继续长大、变肥。

2. 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.

e.g. 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。

相关词组：fatten up

1. 长肥：fatten up 使肥胖 | fatten 长肥 | fattener 养肥禽畜者

2. fatten的翻译

2. 使肥胖：fatplump 胖 | fatten 使肥胖 | fattening 肥育

3.

3. 发胖 长肥：skin and bone 瘦得皮包骨的 | fatten 发胖 长肥 | fatten up 饲养使肥

4. 催肥：fatsoluble vitamin ==> 脂溶性维生素 | fatten ==> 催肥 | fattening ==> 肥育

The forest of Lucania, whose acorns fattened large droves of wild hogs.

出自：Gibbon

He tolerated, even fattened the newspaper myth of a locker-room tough guy.

出自：fig.

近义词

临近词

flesh out长胖

feed喂养

beef up加强

feed up养肥

fat肥胖的

fill out填写

stuff东西

build up建立

plump丰满的

fatten out长肥大

fatten up养肥

plump out脱口而出

fatten on

fatten upon

fatten up

fatigue

fattening up

fatten out

fatty

Fatten pigs

fattening

fattener

fatten pig

fattenable

相关列句

Ann's looking awful thin. Let's give her some food and fatten her up.(小安看起来太瘦了。我们给她点食物，将她喂胖。)

They would fatten themselves for another long leg of their journey.(它们为走上另一个长期的旅程而使自己胖起来。)

No one expects the firm's tight margins to fatten up in the coming months, however.(然而，并没人预计亚马逊惨淡的利润率能在未来几月就会显著改观。)

The farmer tried to fatten the lean cattle for market.(农夫试图把瘦牛养肥以上市。)

Happy New Year to you: don't fatten up, front you most qiao; Have money in hand, dreams are laughing.(祝您新年：身上不长膘，人前你*俏；手头有钞票，梦里都在笑。)

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。)

Trust me, she'd fatten you four up in a week.(相信我，她一周就能把你们四个养胖。)

The child is underweight. I'm trying to fatten him up as fast as I can.(这孩子体重不足，我正设法尽快地使他壮实起来。)

You're too skinny. We need to fatten you up.(你太瘦了，我们要把你养胖。)

The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale.(*府正在让纳税人付钱来养肥一项公共服务事业，再卖给私人。)