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

• Federal investigators have been trying to determine how much of the tainted pet food had been used in feed for hogs and chickens.
  联邦调查员一直在试图决定在给猪和肉鸡中的饲料里，人们用了多少被污染的宠物食品。
• That we can live like hogs in the fat house forever.
  能让我们永远吃喝玩乐。
• 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。
• Feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied.
  用作食物的猪的脚或趾关节；盐渍、煮炖或凝胶处理。
• 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！
• But a spokesman for the plant said the boy was not related to a plant worker, that none of its workers were sick and that its hogs were vaccinated against flu.
  但是养殖场的发言人说，该男孩和养殖场工人没有任何关联，该场的没有工人得流感，该场的所有猪已注射抗流感疫苗。
• 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。
• If prices continue to fall, farmers will start killing pigs because it makes no sense for them to buy the feed for hogs that are worth little when sold.
  如果猪肉价格继续下跌，农民会开始宰猪，因为如果猪卖不出好价格，他们再购买饲料养猪就没有意义了。
• At one point the exchange even considered a futures contract for live hogs, although this was shelved.
  大连期交所甚至考虑过生猪期货合约，但最终搁置了。
• Clem had driven the hogs back.
  克莱姆已经把猪赶回去了。