Verb:

1. make fat or plump;

   "We will plump out that poor starving child"
   

1.(动物)长膘，变肥;催肥，养肥
If an animalis fattened, or if itfattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more.

e.g. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...
喂肥牛群以宰杀。
e.g. The creature continued to grow andfatten.
这个家伙继续长大、变肥。

2.使(企业)发财;使(利润)增长;为…牟利
If you say that someoneis 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.

e.g. 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。

相关词组：fatten up

1. 长肥：fatten up 使肥胖 |fatten 长肥 |fattener 养肥禽畜者

2. fatten的翻译

2. 使肥胖：fatplump 胖 |fatten 使肥胖 |fattening 肥育

3.

3. 发胖 长肥：skin and bone 瘦得皮包骨的 |fatten 发胖 长肥 |fatten up 饲养使肥

4. 催肥：fatsoluble vitamin ==> 脂溶性维生素 |fatten ==> 催肥 |fattening ==> 肥育

• The forest of Lucania, whose acorns fattened large droves of wild hogs.

  出自：Gibbon

• He tolerated, even fattened the newspaper myth of a locker-room tough guy.

  出自：fig.

We keep animals in pens to fatten them.

我们把动物关在围栏里把它们养肥。

Some people deny themselves the necessaries or comforts of life in order that they may be able to help to fatten a publican.

有些人不要生活必需品和较好的享受，目的是为了可以帮助养肥酒店老板。

The piglets are taken from the sow to be fattened for market.

这些小猪被从母猪身边带走，好育肥上市。

She's very thin after her illness'u2500but we'll soon fatten her up.

她病后瘦得很——不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。

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。

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。

Adjusting that tax could fatten profit margins without the need to raise fuel prices on consumers.

调整暴利税会提高石油公司的利润率,同时又不会造成成品油零售价的上涨.

Your article seems rather thin in places; can you fatten it out a little?

你的文章在某些地方略显空洞; 你能把它充实一点 吗 ?

Watch out when you are getting all you want; fatten hog ai not in luck.

正当你心想事成、万事如意之际,尤需小心提防;正在长肥的公猪, 并不是交上了什么运气的呢.

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 ?

Each year Alaskans fatten their wallets with a dividend check from an oil fund.

每年,阿拉斯加人都会从石油投资中获得巨额分红.

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.

The farmer tried to fatten the lean cattle for market.

农夫试图把瘦牛养肥以上市.

We keep animals in pens to fatten them.

我们把动物关在围栏里把它们养肥.

It requires a great deal more grain to fatten animals then to feed people directly.

因为人们需要更多的谷物,来喂养更多的牲畜,最终来满足人们对肉类的消耗.

He's trying to fatten Dan up so they can hibernate together.

它想把丹喂得胖胖的,陪它一起冬眠!

Mothers usually fatten their children up with milk.

母亲们通常给孩子们吃牛奶好让他们长胖.

Ann's looking awful thin. Let's give her some food and fatten her up.

小安看起来太瘦了. 我们给她点食物,将她喂胖.

Giving pigs fine feed can fatten them up.

给猪喂精饲料可以催膘.

The child is underweight. I'm trying to fatten him up as fast as I can.

这孩子体重不足. 我正设法尽快地使他壮实起来.

She attempts to fatten her children up with potatoes, spaghetti, and creamed dishes.

她试图用土豆 、 通心粉和加奶油的菜使孩子们壮实起来.

Don't lazily think to fatten yourself with the dangers and pains of other people.

你休想偷懒呆在这里,叫别人冒危险,吃苦头,你坐享其成.

They could eat and have their fill , fatten and feast themselves on your immense good gifts.

他们都吃得饱满,身体肥胖, 安逸享乐,这都是因你无量的慈善.

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。

The creature continued to grow and fatten.

这个家伙继续长大、变肥。

You're too skinny 'u2014 we'll have to fatten you up.

你太瘦了，我们要把你养胖些。