• vi. 貪食；咯咯叫
• vt. 狼吞虎咽
• n. 火雞叫聲

來自gob, 嘴。-le, 表反復。

gobble (v.1)

"eat greedily, swallow hastily," c. 1600, probably partly echoic, partly frequentative and based on gob (n.1), via gobben "drink something greedily" (early 15c.). Related: Gobbled; gobbling.

gobble (v.2)

"make a turkey noise," 1670s, probably imitative, perhaps influenced by gobble (v.1) or gargle. As a noun from 1781.

1. There were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up.

河里有吃人的危險動物。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Don't gobble your food like that!

別這么狼吞虎咽地吃東西！

來自《權威詞典》

3. Papa would pretend to gobble, to emphasize this " excellence. "

爸爸假裝狼吞虎咽, 以強調它的 “ 可口. ”

來自辭典例句

4. This machine can gobble up work at a quite fantastic rate.

這臺機器能以相當驚人的速度進行工作.

來自辭典例句

5. Do you gobble up all the baby food?

你把嬰兒食品都吞到你肚子里啦?

來自電影對白