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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Reduce transportation costs through pooling loads of hogs.
  通过生猪的集中装运降低运输成本。
• 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。
• 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。
• The hogs rooted out truffles. She hunted out an old diary.
  猪用鼻子翻拱出块菌。她翻寻出一本旧日记。
• I couldn't stand to see anybody eaten up by the hogs.
  我不能眼睁睁地看着别人被猪吃掉。
• 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。