absorb 的定义
- to suck up or drink in; soak up: A sponge absorbs water.
- to swallow up the identity or individuality of; incorporate: The empire absorbed many small nations.
- to involve the full attention of; to engross or engage wholly: so absorbed in a book that he did not hear the bell.
- to occupy or fill: This job absorbs all of my time.
- to take up or receive by chemical or molecular action: Carbonic acid is formed when water absorbs carbon dioxide.
- to take in without echo, recoil, or reflection: to absorb sound and light; to absorb shock.
- to take in and utilize: The market absorbed all the computers we could build. Can your brain absorb all this information?
- to pay for: The company will absorb all the research costs.
- Archaic. to swallow up.
absorb 近义词
physically take in a liquid
mentally take in information
occupy complete attention
更多absorb例句
- The meat was almost blackened by the time it absorbed the smoke, and while the skin was crisp, it gave way between my teeth.
- With a more extensive root system, plants can absorb more nutrients and pump more exudates into the soil to recruit more helpful microbes that can make more indole-3-acetic acid.
- A few amphibians don’t bother with lungs and instead absorb oxygen through their skin.
- Even with an increase in volume, the system has space to absorb more passengers and still perform well.
- I wanted to learn as much as I could about the trail and, as an educator, he was happy to give me as much information as I could absorb.
- Similar reinforced plinths were developed by the Getty museums in Los Angeles to absorb the seismic movements there.
- In the book, you say “Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth.”
- But the details of this massacre have been especially difficult to absorb.
- It gave me license to pore over raw tape, again and again, to absorb the subtle clues of human behavior.
- “I welcome China to Africa because Africa is big enough to absorb China,” he said.
- Never smoke when the pores are open: they absorb, and you are unfit for decent society.
- It was with much amazement that they watched Henrietta absorb sandwiches, cake, eggs, and fruit.
- Here one can be alive and absorb something of the earth-forces that never get within touching distance in the cities.
- The recent researches of Brustlein have shown that lime does cause the organic matters to absorb ammonia from its salts.
- Should it still be too moist to be sown, it must be again turned over, and mixed with some dry substance to absorb the moisture.