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

• A method should be devised by which neither side would swallow up the other.
  要搞一个你不吃掉我、我也不吃掉你的办法。
• 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 Increase In travel cost swallow up our pay Increase
  旅行费用的增加耗尽了我们的工资增长
• 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。
• However, neither should the mainland swallow up taiwan, nor should Taiwan swallow up the mainland.
  但不是我吃掉你，也不是你吃掉我。
• Gigantic companies like Google swallow up smaller ones.
  像谷歌（Google）这样的巨无霸会吞噬小公司。
• "You little mouse, you dare to wake me? I'll swallow you up!"
  “你这只小老鼠，你敢叫醒我？我要吞了你！”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。