英语词汇“to run to fat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to run to fat.

(a) To put on (undesired) weight; to have a tendency to do this. Originally of livestock (cf. sense 7a); later often of a person.

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1809 R. Kerr Gen. View Agric. Berwick (new ed.) xiv. 396 They do not answer for fat lambs quite so well as inferior breeds, not being supposed such good nurses, as more apt to run to fat than to milk.

1845 Punch 8 157/1 Two years ago he weighed eleven stone, he now weighed twelve. It would never do to be running to fat like this.

1867 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 335/1 The sheep all ran to fat in their tails.

1899 Speaker 11 Feb. 171/2 All through history kings have run to fat. Dionysius, King of Heraclea, was so fat as to live in constant terror of suffocation.

1913 J. A. Craig Sheep-farming in N. Amer. iv. 74 Their extra weight and tendency to run to fat do not give them the popularity in the markets that is accorded those breeds that come to maturity at smaller weights.

1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal iv. 32 He was a broad, heavily built young man, just beginning to run to fat, good natured and boisterous.

1989 A. Bernays Professor Romeo (1990) i. i. 13 He wanted to see if her mother had run to fat.

2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? vii. 94 And I hate his big round eyes—I'll bet he has some kind of overactive thyroid disorder. He looks like he'll run to fat, too, within a couple of years.

(b) figurative. To become less active, capable, sharp, etc.; to become unnecessarily large, with the implication of being less efficient.

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1906 W. M. Giffin School Days in Fifties 78 I fear my brain has run to fat.

1964 Science 18 Sept. 1337/1 Most of the major international scientific congresses have run to fat, to such an extent that intelligence gives way to stupor and social vitality to incoherence.

1984 Jrnl. Amer. Stud. 18 132 Multi-volume histories, like the Great American Novel, tend to run to fat.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 9 Jan. 9 You have to manage your business and keep an eye on it or it will run to fat and begin to fall apart.

单词	to run to fat
释义	> as lemmas to run to fat b. to run to fat. (a) To put on (undesired) weight; to have a tendency to do this. Originally of livestock (cf. sense 7a); later often of a person. ΚΠ 1809 R. Kerr Gen. View Agric. Berwick (new ed.) xiv. 396 They do not answer for fat lambs quite so well as inferior breeds, not being supposed such good nurses, as more apt to run to fat than to milk. 1845 Punch 8 157/1 Two years ago he weighed eleven stone, he now weighed twelve. It would never do to be running to fat like this. 1867 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 335/1 The sheep all ran to fat in their tails. 1899 Speaker 11 Feb. 171/2 All through history kings have run to fat. Dionysius, King of Heraclea, was so fat as to live in constant terror of suffocation. 1913 J. A. Craig Sheep-farming in N. Amer. iv. 74 Their extra weight and tendency to run to fat do not give them the popularity in the markets that is accorded those breeds that come to maturity at smaller weights. 1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal iv. 32 He was a broad, heavily built young man, just beginning to run to fat, good natured and boisterous. 1989 A. Bernays Professor Romeo (1990) i. i. 13 He wanted to see if her mother had run to fat. 2002 I. Knight Don't you want Me? vii. 94 And I hate his big round eyes—I'll bet he has some kind of overactive thyroid disorder. He looks like he'll run to fat, too, within a couple of years. (b) figurative. To become less active, capable, sharp, etc.; to become unnecessarily large, with the implication of being less efficient. ΚΠ 1906 W. M. Giffin School Days in Fifties 78 I fear my brain has run to fat. 1964 Science 18 Sept. 1337/1 Most of the major international scientific congresses have run to fat, to such an extent that intelligence gives way to stupor and social vitality to incoherence. 1984 Jrnl. Amer. Stud. 18 132 Multi-volume histories, like the Great American Novel, tend to run to fat. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 9 Jan. 9 You have to manage your business and keep an eye on it or it will run to fat and begin to fall apart. extracted from runv. < as lemmas
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