hogs

英 [hɒɡz]

美 [hɔːɡz]

n.  (尤指喂肥供食用的)猪; (供食用的)阉公猪
v.  多占; 独占
hog的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 猪（英国英语中常指阉公猪，而美国英语中泛指猪）
  Ahogis a pig. In British English,hogusually refers to a large male pig that has been castrated, but in American English it can refer to any kind of pig.
  1. We picked the corn by hand and we fed it to the hogs and the cows...
     我们用手掰下玉米，把它喂给猪和牛吃。
  2. Johnny Warrick has a hog farm in Alabama.
     约翰尼·沃里克在亚拉巴马州有个养猪场。
• VERB （贪心地）攫取，独占
  If youhogsomething, you take all of it in a greedy or impolite way.
  1. Have you done hogging the bathroom?...
     你要把浴室霸占到什么时候？
  2. Now, Bert, quit hogging the limelight.
     好了，伯特，别出风头。
• See also:road hog
• PHRASE 彻底地干;一不做二不休
  If yougo the whole hog, you do something bold or extravagant in the most complete way possible.
  1. Well, I thought, I've already lost half my job, I might as well go the whole hog and lose it completely.
     嗯，我想，反正我的工作已经丢了一半了，干脆一不做二不休，走人算了。

双语例句

• Clem had driven the hogs back.
  克莱姆已经把猪赶回去了。
• I hate the way he hogs down his food.
  我讨厌他那副狼吞虎咽的吃相。
• They raise dairy cows, hogs and chickens, too.
  他们还饲养奶牛、猪和鸡。
• If prices continue to fall, farmers will start killing pigs because it makes no sense for them to buy the feed for hogs that are worth little when sold.
  如果猪肉价格继续下跌，农民会开始宰猪，因为如果猪卖不出好价格，他们再购买饲料养猪就没有意义了。
• Come back a few days later, they're running around fat as hogs.
  几天后回来再看，它们变得像肥猪一样到处乱晃。
• I couldn't stand to see anybody eaten up by the hogs.
  我不能眼睁睁地看着别人被猪吃掉。
• Reduce transportation costs through pooling loads of hogs.
  通过生猪的集中装运降低运输成本。
• Federal investigators have been trying to determine how much of the tainted pet food had been used in feed for hogs and chickens.
  联邦调查员一直在试图决定在给猪和肉鸡中的饲料里，人们用了多少被污染的宠物食品。
• Small intestines of hogs prepared as food.
  寄生在人和猪的肠子内。可以食用的肥猪的小肠。
• I should not be of use to him even if I were dead, as the hogs are.
  我就是死了，对我的主人也毫无用处，还不如大肥猪呢！