fatten的意思

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

• fatten out长肥大
• fatten up养肥

• 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.