absorb
英 [?b'z??b; -'s??b]
美[?b'z?b]
- vt. 吸收；吸引；承受；理解；使…全神貫注
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?absorbs;過去式:?absorbed;過去分詞:?absorbed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?absorbing;
中文詞源
absorb 吸收
前綴ab-,此處用于強調(diào)義。詞根sorb,吸收，吮吸，擬聲詞。
英文詞源
- absorb
- absorb: [15] Absorb comes, via French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ab- ‘a(chǎn)way’ and sorbēre ‘suck up, swallow’. Words connected with drinking and swallowing quite often contain the sounds s or sh, r, and b or p – Arabic, for instance, has surāb, which gave us syrup – and this noisy gulping seems to have been reflected in an Indo- European base, *srobh-, which lies behind both Latin sorbēre and Greek ropheín ‘suck up’.
- absorb (v.)
- early 15c., from Middle French absorber (Old French assorbir, 13c.), from Latin absorbere "to swallow up," from ab- "from" (see ab-) + sorbere "suck in," from PIE root *srebh- "to suck, absorb" (cognates: Armenian arbi "I drank," Greek rhopheo "to sup greedily up, gulp down," Lithuanian srebiu "to drink greedily"). Figurative meaning "to completely grip (one's) attention" is from 1763. Related: Absorbed; absorbing.
雙語例句
- 1. The material can absorb outward-going radiation from the Earth.
- 該物質(zhì)可以吸收地球向外輻射的能量。
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- 2. The banks would be forced to absorb large losses.
- 銀行將被迫承受巨大的損失。
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- 3. His ability to absorb bits of disconnected information was astonishing.
- 他吸收利用互不相關(guān)的零碎信息的能耐驚人。
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- 4. Steel barriers can bend and absorb the shock.
- 鋼制柵欄可以彎曲并能吸收沖擊力。
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- 5. We can't absorb those costs.
- 我們負擔不起那些費用。
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