fatten /ˈfætən/ TEM4 ( fattening, fattened, fattens )

• 1. 

  V-T If you say that someone is fattening something such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of. 养肥 [商业]

  例：

  They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits.

  他们一直人为地使糖价居高不下，以此为公司牟利。

• 2. 

  PHRASAL VERB Fatten up means the same as . 养肥

  例：

  The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale.

  政府正在让纳税人付钱来养肥一项公共服务事业，再卖给私人。