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 bloated ['blәutid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 发胀的, 浮肿的, 傲慢的

  1. Hunger bloated the child's belly.
    饥饿让孩子的肚子变得凸出。
  2. Some of these tools produce frighteningly bloated apps.
    某些工具会产生臃肿得可怕的程序。
  3. The Jack was sitting in a corner, who had a bloated pair of shoes on.
    那个伙计坐在墙角里,他脚上穿着一双胀得胖胖的靴子。



Bloat \Bloat\ (bl[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bloated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Bloating}.] [Cf. Icel. blotna to become soft, blautr
soft, wet, Sw. bl["o]t soft, bl["o]ta to soak; akin to G.
bloss bare, and AS. ble['a]t wretched; or perh. fr. root of
Eng. 5th blow. Cf. {Blote}.]
1. To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling
of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular
tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied
with softness.

2. To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. --Dryden.


Bloated \Bloat"ed\ (bl[=o]t"[e^]d), p. a.
Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the
presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a
bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

  1. London brokers have been hit in the past two years by a wave of heavy layoffs as the firms that had invested heavily after the 1986 Big Bang tried to bring bloated costs into line with a leaner and more competitive market.
  2. Foreigners have shown a reluctance to invest in what was East Germany, where problems of land ownership and bloated work forces have compounded ordinary risks.
  3. In some bloated centres, a fifth of space stands empty, and rent levels have halved since the boom.
  4. But thousands of people died, chopped to bits in the fighting or bloated by the plague.
  5. Such "cheating" has bloated world oil supplies and depressed prices.
  6. This figure is bloated by the cost of financing record unemployment totalling 14 per cent of the workforce through some of Europe's most generous jobless benefits.
  7. At Wickes, working with many of the same managers, Mr. Sigoloff pushed the bloated company through a tough restructuring in 33 months.
  8. American Airlines chief executive Robert L. Crandall is no soft-hearted corpocrat sitting atop a bloated, underperforming enterprise.
  9. Reducing GM's bloated costs, a big issue in last year's public shoot-out with Mr. Perot, is part of the company's turnaround effort.
  10. On a limited budget, Mr. Carr has produced more professionals than the entire athletic department with its bloated budget and widely publicized scandals.
  11. But with the imposition of a bit of military discipline it is being turned into a more effective retail fighting machine. Like fellow clothing groups Storehouse, Next and Burton, Sears had become bloated and unmanageable in the late 1980s.
  12. Most, apart from Exxon, the industry's master of cost control, have plenty of fat to trim. Companies became bloated in the 1970s and the early 1980s when crude prices were high.
  13. Three years ago, for example, Ford set the Big Three pattern and used the opportunity to agree to job-security language it hoped would undermine GM's efforts to cut its bloated payrolls.
  14. The 1865 explosion of the paddlewheeler Sultana was a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic, and the muddy Mississippi River coughed up burned and bloated bodies for weeks afterward.
  15. Mr. Schulman added that the cuts in the work force are overdue because "I've long believed one of Wang's underlying problems was a bloated cost structure."
  16. Before the act, recalls Dennis Smith of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, "we would arrest people with documents costing $300 to $500." To him, "there is no doubt" the immigration act has bloated the demand and price.
  17. In the Benelux region, Coke said, concentrate and syrup sales increased 17%, but they were flat in West Germany as bottlers reduced bloated inventories.
  18. Vargas Llosa is basing his campaign on radical, neo-liberal policies to reduce government intervention in the economy and to reduce the bloated bureaucracy.
  19. She won after promising sweeping reform in a government many believe is bloated and inefficient, including a pledge to cut 2,000 middle-level managers from the district's 48,000-member work force.
  20. Domestic distillate stockpiles are nearly 19 million barrels, or 12.8%, below their bloated year-earlier levels, but "those low levels of heating oil are pretty well discounted," an analyst in Chicago said.
  21. Some grant recipients, meanwhile, have complained that bloated university bureaucracies and ambitious campus building programs have taken a bite out of outside funds that would otherwise have been directly available for their research.
  22. In addition, the German budget deficit will remain bloated by spending on the eastern region, expenditures that have contributed to Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling Conservative Party losing several state elections since unification last year.
  23. In addition, he explained that several major distributors went public, prompting them to clamp down on bloated stocks.
  24. The auto industry had laid off more than 90,000 workers during January to ease bloated inventories.
  25. Ashton-Tate Corp. announced companywide layoffs and cost-cutting to stem widening losses expected in the third quarter because of flat sales and bloated inventories at the distributor level.
  26. The organization was seen as biased against the United States, bureaucratically bloated and wasteful.
  27. Still, some traders are stunned and unnerved by the strength of the Christmas rally and bloated valuations on some stocks.
  28. "They're still too bloated," contends David Hanna, a longtime IBM manager now working as a consultant.
  29. The Bundesbank's broad money aggregate contracted in February relative to its bloated fourth quarter base but is still rising at more than 7 per cent on an annual basis.
  30. On $250 a month (at the bloated official rate), the Sheraton staff members have no smile incentive.
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