guzzle

1. V-T/V-I If you guzzle something, you drink it or eat it quickly and greedily. 狼吞虎咽[非正式]

Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade. 梅麗莎狂飲杜松子酒和奎甯水調(diào)的飲品，就像喝檸檬水一樣。

2. V-T If you say that a vehicle guzzles fuel, you mean that it uses a lot of it in a way that is wasteful and unnecessary. (汽車)費(fèi)油→see also gas guzzler

The plane was deafeningly noisy, guzzled fuel, and left a trail of smoke. 這架飛機(jī)噪音震耳，費(fèi)油，還畱下一屁股菸霧。

3. -guzzlingCOMB in ADJ [ADJ n]

The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars. 20世紀(jì)80年代的經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮導(dǎo)致了對(duì)高油耗汽車的喜愛。

...big, energy-guzzling houses. ...大的、浪費(fèi)能源的房屋。