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

• You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.
  你太瘦了，我们要把你养胖些。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• His wife tried to fatten him up a bit after they got married.
  他们结婚后，他的妻子试图把他养胖一点儿。
• My mum gives me so much food I think she wants to fatten me up.
  我妈妈让我吃这么多尔西，我觉得她是想把我喂胖了。
• 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。
• 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 new feed can fatten the chickens up quickly enough for market.
  新饲料能使鸡长得更快，以供应市场。
• They fattened up ducks and geese
  他们喂肥了鹅鸭。