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To be swallowed up 意思是吞併，統戰的意思。在商業中意思是接管。
London has grown so much that is has swallowed up all the outlying villages.
Food and heating swallows up much of our household income.
The company was swallowed up in a corporate merger.
另一個短語 to swallow it – 意思是忍氣吞聲地接受什麼東西。
Customers will just have to swallow the price rises.
You've got no choice about the decision so just swallow it and move on.
We've lost the deposit on the holiday, we will have just have to swallow it.