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。
• They raise dairy cows, hogs and chickens, too.
  他们还饲养奶牛、猪和鸡。
• The hogs rooted out truffles.
  猪用鼻子翻拱出块菌。
• 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。
• 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。
• Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
  只有那些年纪较大的男人、残疾人和妇女留了下来，他们整天编织缝纫，加紧种植棉花和玉米，为军队饲养更多的猪羊牛马。
• I hate the way he hogs down his food.
  我讨厌他那副狼吞虎咽的吃相。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。