The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.该公司的支出占其收入的44%。Small family businesses are being gobbled up by larger firms.小型家庭企业正被较大的公司吞并.We gobbled up the enemy.我们把敌人全歼灭了....
例行的信函a pro forma letter以例行的方式表达悲伤ritualized expressions of grief经验过这种紧张的情形,很难再回来做例行的事务.It was hard to return to mundane matters after such excitement....