swallow up

英 [ˈswɒləʊ ʌp]

美 [ˈswɑːloʊ ʌp]

吞并; 兼并; 用尽，耗光（金钱、资源）; 吞没; 淹没

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吞并;侵吞;把…并入其中
  If one thingis swallowed upby another, it becomes part of the first thing and no longer has a separate identity of its own.
  1. During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.
     20 世纪 80 年代，一些出版巨头开始吞并一些较小的公司。
• PHRASAL VERB 用尽，耗光(金钱、资源)
  If somethingswallows upmoney or resources, it uses them entirely while giving very little in return.
  1. A seven-day TV ad campaign could swallow up the best part of £50,000...
     7 天的电视广告宣传可能会耗费约 5 万英镑。
  2. Farmers could see a quarter of their income swallowed up by the interest rate rise.
     农场主会发现由于利率的上涨，收入减少了1/4。
• PHRASAL VERB 吞没;淹没
  If a person or thingis swallowed upby something, they disappear into it so that you cannot see them any more.
  1. He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd...
     他转身朝跳蚤市场走去，很快淹没在人群中。
  2. Weeds had swallowed up the garden.
     花园里杂草丛生。

英英释义

verb

• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  1. The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
  Synonym:immerseswallowburyeat up

双语例句

• If you have three children, their after-school activities alone could swallow up a quarter of the household budget.
  如果你有三个小孩，单单他们的课余培训活动就将吞噬掉家庭预算的四分之一。
• He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd
  他转身朝跳蚤市场走去，很快淹没在人群中。
• The tear will eventually swallow up the entire galaxy, possibly the universe.
  裂口会吞噬整个星系，甚至是整个宇宙。
• During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.
  20世纪80年代，一些出版巨头开始吞并一些较小的公司。
• The greed with which large companies swallow up their smaller competitors
  大公司为吞并与之竞争的小公司而怀有的贪心
• Lucas is a lucky man, I keep telling this to Ella and swallow up the latter part of my speech.
  卢卡斯特别幸福，我总是这样对艾拉讲，然后生生咽下说不出的后半截话。
• It's interesting how this trap, in which so many women are caught, does not seem to swallow up men.
  有意思的是，在很多这样女人陷落的陷阱中，男人似乎并不受其影响。
• When inequality of wealth once commences, in a community not constantly engaged in repairing by industry the injuries of fortune, its advances are gigantic; the great masses of wealth swallow up the smaller.
  一个社会一旦开始有了财富的不平等，而又不靠发展产业来弥补对财富造成的损失，这种不平等就会愈来愈巨大，吞并会愈演愈烈。
• First, it's really old past the Red Giant phase, when stars balloon in size and swallow up planets in close orbits.
  首先，它非常非常老了它经历过红巨星阶段，这一阶段的恒星会急剧膨胀，吞噬在临近轨道运行的行星。
• Farmers could see a quarter of their income swallowed up by the interest rate rise.
  农场主会发现由于利率的上涨，收入减少了1/4。