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单词 batten
释义
bat·ten 1 (bătn)
v. bat·tened, bat·ten·ing, bat·tens
v.intr.
1. To become fat.
2. To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense: "[She] battens like a leech on the lives of famous people, ... a professional retailer of falsehoods" (George F. Will).
v.tr.
To fatten; overfeed.

[Ultimately from Old Norse batna, to improve; see bhad- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
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