gobbles
v.
狼吞虎咽地吃( gobble的第三人称单数 );
(火鸡)咯咯地叫;
赶快吃;
很快耗掉(尤指金钱);
例句:
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The rent gobbles up half his earnings.
租金用去了他一半的收入.
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He doesn't eat, he gobbles.
他不是在吃, 他是在吞.
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His project just gobbles up money.
他的计划只不过是大量化钱而己.
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Martin says that it gobbles energy and should be turned off from May until October.
来自THETIMES
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He's prodigious in language, in speech, in eloquence, in thought, in reading; he just gobbles the world.
来自NEWYORKER