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。
• 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？
• They raise dairy cows, hogs and chickens, too.
  他们还饲养奶牛、猪和鸡。
• That we can live like hogs in the fat house forever.
  能让我们永远吃喝玩乐。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。