fatten是什么意思？

fatten

英[ˈfætn] 美[ˈfætn]

• vt. 喂肥，养肥（牲畜），使（钱）增多，使（公司）升值；

第三人称单数：fattens;

过去式：fattened;

过去分词：fattened;

现在分词：fattening;

例句

• How do we fatten our portfolios and stay financially healthy? 我们怎样育肥我们的投资结构和维持财政健康 呢 ?
• The new feed can fatten the chicken up quickly enough for market. 新饲料能使鸡长得更快,以适应市场需求.
• You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up. 你太瘦了，我们要把你养胖些。
• The creature continued to grow and fatten. 这个家伙继续长大、变肥。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• V-ERG
  (动物)长膘，变肥;催肥，养肥
  If an animal is fattened, or if it fattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more.
  例句
  The cattle are being fattened for slaughter... 喂肥牛群以宰杀。 The creature continued to grow and fatten. 这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
• VERB
  使(企业)发财;使(利润)增长;为…牟利
  If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of.
  例句
  They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits. 他们一直人为地使糖的价格居高不下，以此为公司牟利。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  (使)长胖，长肥；(把动物)育肥
  The sheep fattened up quickly. 羊很快就上膘了。 We’re fattening the livestock up for slaughter. 我们正在催肥牲畜待宰杀。 The new feed can fatten the chicken up quickly enough for market. 新饲料能使鸡长得更快,以适应市场需求。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. make fat or plump;
  "We will plump out that poor starving child"