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

• 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。
• You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.
  你太瘦了，我们要把你养胖些。
• 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！
• They fattened up ducks and geese
  他们喂肥了鹅鸭。
• 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。
• War in Asia will just fatten up the Americans anyway, it will be a good opportunity for them to pull themselves out of the recession.
  在亚洲的战争只会发胖了美国人无论如何，这将是一个很好的机会，让他们把自己的经济衰退了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。