The whole city gobbles up one million tons of vegetables every day

全城每天要消耗掉100万吨蔬菜。

He doesn’t eat, he gobbles .

他不是在吃, 他是在吞。

This project just gobbles up money

这个项目只是耗费钱财。

This water tube boiler gobbles up coal

这台水管锅炉耗煤很厉害。

The rent gobbles up half his earnings.

租金一项就占去他一半的收入.

||1:Such arguments are the basis of a new PR campaign launched by Peabody, the world’s largest private coal company.||2:And coal would indeed be a boon, were it not for one small problem: it is devastatingly dirty.||3:Mining, transport, storage and burning are fraught with mess, as well as danger.||4:Deep mines put workers in intolerably filthy and dangerous conditions.||5:But opencast mining, now the source of much of the world’s coal, rips away topsoil and gobbles water.||6:Transporting coal brings a host of environmental problems.

||1:如此的论断正是皮博迪公司发起的新一轮公关活动的核心内容，而目前该公司是全世界最大的私人煤炭企业。||2:煤炭本该成为上帝的惠泽，而若不是因为这一个小小的问题：它的破坏性污染。||3:开采、运输、储存和燃烧使用的一系列过程中，不仅充满着问题，还具有相当的危险性。||4:深入地下的矿井意味着矿工们要在难以忍受的肮脏以及危险的条件下工作。||5:但目前大多数煤矿所进行的地表开采，不仅会使地表土壤流失，同时也消耗着大量的水。||6:煤炭的运输还会带来一系列的环境问题。

||1:Some data providers go further, seeking to exploit all relevant statistics, such as official figures for new passenger-car registrations.||2:This requires a sophisticated model to extract a common signal for GDP from the welter of data that become available.||3:This is the approach adopted by Now-Casting Economics, a firm whose founders include two economists, Lucrezia Reichlin and Domenico Giannone.||4:In the case of the euro zone, their model gobbles up 50 monthly variables and uses their past relationships with GDP to calculate an estimate for the current quarter.||5:At present the firm, whose clients are hedge funds and other asset managers, is expecting growth of 0.26% in the second quarter—somewhat more sluggish than Markit’s estimate.

||1:有些数据供应商则走的更远，寻求利用所有相关的统计信息，比如有关新型乘用车注册的官方数字。||2:这需要一个复杂的模型来从冗杂的数据中提取出有关GDP的通用信号。||3:目前，短时预测经济公司正是采用这种方法，其创始人包括两位经济学家，卢克雷西娅·赖希林和多梅尼科·詹诺内。||4:在欧元区范围内，他们使用模型抓取了50个月的变量，并利用其过去与GDP的联系来计算、估测本季度的经济形式。||5:该公司的客户是对冲基金和其他资产管理公司，目前它预期二季度经济增长率为0.26%，略低于麦盖提公布的估测数据。

It gobbles more federal and local money than any state programme, other than education.

除了教育之外，它比其他任何州的财政计划耗去更多联邦和地方的经费。

When introduced to UV light, the GFP gobbles up photons, producing electrons that enter the circuit as electricity.

当把紫外光放进来的时候，GFP呼哧哧地把光子抓走，并产生电子进入电路产生电流。

Beer is the result of a chemical process that takes place when yeast gobbles up sugars and excretes carbon dioxide and alcohol.

当酵母吞咽蔗糖，并排泄出二氧化碳和酒精时，会发生一些化学反应，啤酒就是由此而来。

And to cap it all, aquaculture produces CO2 and gobbles up energy.

更有甚者，水产养殖产生CO2并大量消耗能源。

Brainpower gobbles up close to 90 percent of a newborn’s energy.

脑力消耗掉新生儿将近90%的能量。

Medicaid gobbles up more state money than any programme except education.

医疗补助计划比除教育之外的任何计划都需要政府资金投入。