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- fattened
v.
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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.
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The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...
喂肥牛群以宰杀。
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The creature continued to grow and fatten.
这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
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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.
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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。
- Fatten up means the same as fatten .fatten up 同 fatten
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The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale.
政府正在用纳税人的钱壮大一家公有企业，再进行私人认购。
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- 相关词组：
- fatten up
- Adjective
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1. (of market animals) made ready for market
- 1. A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
- 人怕出名猪怕壮。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. The pigs are fattened up for market.
- 把猪育肥以供应市场。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 3. The sheep fattened up quickly.
- 羊很快就上膘了。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Those corrupt officials fattened themselves by drinking the people's life-blood.
- 那些贪官污吏用民脂民膏养肥了自己。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
