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

• I hate the way he hogs down his food.
  我讨厌他那副狼吞虎咽的吃相。
• One cannot make a profit unless the hogs are fed properly.
  如果缺乏合理的饲养，养猪也不赚钱。
• 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。
• For the most part the farmer gives to his cattle and hogs the grain of his own producing, and buys flour, which is at least no more wholesome, at a greater cost, at the store.
  农夫们把自己生产的一大部分谷物喂了牛和猪，另外花了更大的代价到铺予里去买了未必更有益健康的面粉回来。
• I guess I'll have to sell my Poland China hogs. what's a good breed now?
  我看得把我的波兰中国猪卖掉。目前有什么好的猪种？
• Hogs commence breeding when they are from nine to twelve months old.
  母猪等他们到了九到十二个月大时就开始繁殖。
• 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！
• Most smartphone users are not data hogs, so they will not have to pay more for their service.
  多数智能手机用户并非带宽杀手，因此他们不必为自己所享受的服务支出更多费用。
• Clem had driven the hogs back.
  克莱姆已经把猪赶回去了。
• Altering hogs and cows is nothing, of course, compared with human genetic engineering.
  当然，如果同人类遗传工程相比，改变猪和牛就根本不算一回事了。