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

• The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
  传10：12智慧人的口、说出恩言.愚昧人的嘴、吞灭自己。
• There was no gaping dark hole that would swallow up bad people.
  根本没有张开的黑洞能把坏人吞掉。
• I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
  我们这城的人在以色列人中是和平，忠厚的。你为何要毁坏以色列中的大城，吞灭耶和华的产业呢。
• Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
  恶人吞灭比自己公义的，你为何静默不语呢。
• They did all possible means, such as forged our signatures and so on, even swallow up or depreciation the real estate that belong to us.
  比如伪造我们的签名等，把属于我们的不动产贬值甚至吞掉。
• 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。
• 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。
• The expenses swallow up most of the profits.
  花费大而利润少。
• 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。
• 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。