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

• "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！”
• And find that the P2P platform which is constructed by using Agent can resolve some problems which are faced to P2P currently. Such as trash information, swallow up the bandwidth of networks, reducing the performances of computers, and so on.
  本文通过对现有P2P系统进行深入细致的分析，发现使用Agent来构建P2P平台可以解决P2P系统当前所面临的一些问题，如垃圾信息、吞噬网络带宽、影响用户计算机的性能等。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• Will hell swallow you up?
  你们会被地狱吞噬吧？
• 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 earth seemed to swallow them up.
  地球好像把他们吞没了。
• 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。