fatten

verb

1. （使）长胖，长肥；（尤指动物宰杀前）育肥
   to make sb/sth fatter, especially an animal before killing it for food; to become fatter
   1. 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。
   2. She's very thin after her illness─but 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。

1. 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.
   1. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...
      喂肥牛群以宰杀。
   2. The creature continued to grow and fatten.
      这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
2. 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.
   1. 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。
   2. Fatten up means the same as fatten .
      fatten up 同 fatten
   3. 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。

1. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter
   喂肥牛群以宰杀。
2. The creature continued to grow and fatten.
   这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
3. 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。
4. You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.
   你太瘦了，我们要把你养胖些。
5. The new feed can fatten the chickens up quickly enough for market.
   新饲料能使鸡长得更快，以供应市场。
6. 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？
7. A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results.
   一条饥饿的狼想把鸡养肥来做炖鸡，却产生了意想不到的结果。
8. Analysts expect its corn imports to treble in the next decade, as rising incomes spur demand for meat and the feed grains used to fatten livestock.
   分析师预测，其玉米进口将在未来10年增加两倍，因不断增加的收入刺激了对肉类和喂养牲畜所需的饲料的需求。
9. Trust me, she'd fatten you four up in a week.
   相信我，她一周就能把你们四个养胖。
10. My mum gives me so much food I think she wants to fatten me up.
    我妈妈让我吃这么多尔西，我觉得她是想把我喂胖了。
11. I gave them a description of the way I managed the goats, and directions to milk and fatten them, and to make both butter and cheese.
    我又把我管理山羊的办法，以及挤羊奶、使羊肥壮、做奶油和干酪的方法告诉他们。
12. But the giant panda can't fatten up enough to hibernate.
    但大熊猫无法积累足够的脂肪以备冬眠。
13. Outdoor barbecue ready to eat food and spices which are less likely to fatten up ah?
    户外烧烤准备什么吃更多的食物和调味品，是不容易增肥啊？
14. The prices of corn, used to fatten animals, and meat and poultry, are also rising.
    用作动物饲料的玉米，以及肉类和禽肉类的价格也在不断上涨。
15. ( of livestock) kept and fed in a stall in order to fatten for the market.
    （牲畜）在厩中喂养为了拿到市场上卖的。
16. Fatten up your pigs so they're worth more money
    在你的猪上养肥这样他们关于价值更多钱
17. Although soyabean is less known than cereals such as wheat, rice and corn, it plays a crucial role in the global food chain, providing animal feed to fatten the rising number of cows, sheep, pigs and poultry the world consumes.
    大豆虽不像小麦、水稻和玉米等谷类那么广为人知，却在全球食物链中扮演着举足轻重的角色提供动物饲料，养殖供全球消费的牛、羊、猪和家禽。
18. Meanwhile, consumption of key feedstocks such as corn and soyabeans used to fatten livestock have jumped& soyabean consumption has doubled in the past 10 years.
    与此同时，玉米和大豆等用于喂养牲口的主要饲料消耗量激增，其中大豆消耗量10年来翻了一番。
19. Most hill farmers cannot fatten their lambs off in their first summer.
    在羊羔生下来的第一个夏季，大多数山地农户都无法把它们养肥。
20. To eat more bananas will not be able to lose weight but most fatten up.
    为了吃更多的香蕉将不能减肥，但最胖了。
21. 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。
22. His wife tried to fatten him up a bit after they got married.
    他们结婚后，他的妻子试图把他养胖一点儿。
23. Once I fatten the book with more diagrams and images the wife edits the book.
    有一次我育肥的书籍，更多的图表和图片的妻子修改这本书。
24. In the summer it is harder to catch seals, so before summer arrives, the bears eat as much as they can to fatten up, then live off the fat in their bodies.
    在夏季，它是很难捕捉海豹，所以夏季到来之前，熊大量吃因为它们可以用来催肥了，然后吃了他们的身体脂肪。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. Price difference and discharge are changed, with respect to this bit sufficient already fatten he.
    差价和流量转换，就这点足已经养肥了他。
28. The farmer tried to fatten the lean cattle for market.
    农夫试图把瘦牛养肥以上市。
29. We fatten other creatures so that they can feed us, and we fatten ourselves to ultimately feed maggots.
    我们喂肥了其他动物给自己受用，再喂肥了自己给蛆受用。
30. The witch wanted to fatten the children up so that she could eat them!
    巫婆想把这两个孩子养得肥肥胖胖的，然后再吃掉他们！

verb

1. make fat or plump
   1. We will plump out that poor starving child

   Synonym:    fatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten outfatten up