a piece or lump of flesh, food, or other matter (肉、食物或其他物体的)一块(或一团) a torn-off gobbet of flesh. 撕开的一块肉。 ■an extract from a text, especially one set for translation or comment in an examination (尤指在考试中供翻译或评论的)引文,片段 the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for gobbets. 这种诗主要被视为引文摘句的来源。
语源
Middle English: from Old French gobet, diminutive of gobe (see gob)