gulper
gulper — 名詞
1. a person or animal that swallows food, drink, or air in large, hurried gulps
狼吞虎嚥的人
吃喝又快又急的人或動物；有別於深海魚
a person or animal that swallows food, drink, or air in large, hurried gulps
Brandon is such a gulper at meals — his plate is clean before anyone else has even started.
Brandon 是個狼吞虎嚥的人，別人才剛坐下，他的盤子已經空了。
pattern: be + such a gulper (informal description of a person)
Ayesha teased her brother for being a gulper — he finished his soup in four noisy swallows.
Ayesha 笑她弟弟狼吞虎嚥，一碗湯四口就喝完了。
pattern: teased for being a gulper (informal, mild criticism)
Shirin's Labrador is a messy gulper who always scatters half his kibble across the floor.
Shirin 的拉布拉多是隻狼吞虎嚥的狗，總是把一半飼料撒得滿地都是。
When we pulled the plug, the sink became a gulper, draining the water in quick, noisy swallows.
我們一拔掉塞子，水槽就像狼吞虎嚥似的，咕嚕咕嚕地把水吸乾了。
Lucas surfaced from the pool a gulper of air, his mouth wide open between strokes.
Lucas 從泳池冒出水面，像狼吞虎嚥般大口吸著氣，嘴巴在划水之間張得大大的。
用法筆記
Typically used informally to describe someone who eats or drinks too quickly, often with mild teasing or criticism.
常見錯誤
2. a deep-sea fish with an eel-like body and a huge mouth that stretches open to sw
吞鰻
嘴巴極大的深海魚，能吞下比自己大的獵物
a deep-sea fish with an eel-like body and a huge mouth that stretches open to swallow prey bigger than itself
Diving robots filmed a gulper two kilometres deep, its giant jaws wide open in the pitch-black water.
潛水機器人在兩公里深的海底拍到一條吞鰻，巨大的嘴巴在漆黑中大開。
typical deep-sea habitat description with depth measurement
A gulper can swallow a squid twice its size because its stomach stretches like a balloon.
吞鰻能吞下比自己大一倍的魷魚，因為牠的胃像氣球一樣能伸縮。
can + verb: ability to swallow unusually large prey
A gulper opened its enormous mouth and swallowed a squid nearly twice its length in one motion.
一條吞鰻張開巨大的嘴巴，一口吞下幾乎有自己兩倍長的魷魚。
The gulper's tail tip glows with a faint light to lure curious fish close enough to be eaten whole.
吞鰻的尾巴尖端會發出微光，引誘好奇的小魚靠近，然後一口吞掉。
Fishermen once hauled a gulper from the deep, its huge mouth still stretched around a half-swallowed fish.
漁民曾從深海拖起一條吞鰻，牠巨大的嘴巴還緊緊箍著一條吞了一半的魚。
- gulper eel
the common English name for members of this fish family; used interchangeably
- pelican eel
refers specifically to Eurypharynx pelecanoides, one well-known species of gulper
用法筆記
Often called 'gulper eel' or 'pelican eel' in popular science writing. Distinguish from sense 1, which describes a person or thing that gulps.