fatten，英语单词，主要用作及物动词、不及物动词，作及物动词时译为“养肥；使肥沃；使充实”，作不及物动词时译为“养肥；（靠…）发财”。

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]

PHRASAL VERBFatten up means the same as . 养肥

fatten out 长肥大 ; 长胖

fatten upon 养肥自已靠

shortdated fatten 短期育肥

fatten cattle 肥育牛

fatten experiment 育肥试验

fatten on 变肥 ; 发财致富

emaciate fatten 肥育

fatten up 养肥 ; 长膘

fatten ratio 育肥率

I'll never fatten my students into playing truant.

我决不姑息我的学生逃学。

She's very thin after her illness—but we'll soon fatten her up.

她病后瘦得很—不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。

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。