fatten

柯林斯詞典

fatten /?f?t?n/ (fattening,fattened,fattens)

• 1. V-T If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of. 養(yǎng)肥[商業(yè)]

  They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits. 他們一直人爲地使糖價居高不下，以此爲公司牟利。

• 2. PHRASAL VERB Fatten up means the same as . 養(yǎng)肥

  The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale. 政府正在讓納稅人付錢來養(yǎng)肥一項公共服務事業(yè)，再賣給私人。

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