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assimilate to

/verb uh-sim-uh-leyt; noun uh-sim-uh-lit, -leyt/US // verb əˈsɪm əˌleɪt; noun əˈsɪm ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt //UK // (əˈsɪmɪˌleɪt) //

吸收为,吸收到,同化为,吸收成

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v.有主动词 verb
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    as·sim·i·lat·ed, as·sim·i·lat·ing.

    • : to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
    • : to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a dominant social group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust: to assimilate the new immigrants.
    • : Physiology. to convert to substances suitable for incorporation into the body and its tissues.
    • : to cause to resemble.
    • : to compare; liken.
    • : Phonetics. to modify by assimilation.
v.无主动词 verb
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    as·sim·i·lat·ed, as·sim·i·lat·ing.

    • : to be or become absorbed.
    • : to conform or adjust to the customs, attitudes, etc., of a dominant social group, nation, or the like: The new arrivals assimilated easily and quickly.
    • : Physiology. to be converted into the substance of the body; be absorbed into the system.
    • : to bear a resemblance.
    • : Phonetics. to become modified by assimilation.
n.名词 noun
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    • : something that is assimilated.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inconvert

Examples

  • They had worried about being able to assimilate into a culture so different from the one they had left behind.

  • Their stories were told again and again in an attempt to assimilate the tragedy, to comprehend the incomprehensible.

  • As prejudices waned, it became easier and ultimately desirable for Jews to fully assimilate.

  • Our bodies have a tendency to assimilate to the cognitive enhancements of tea, which can eventually lead to addiction.

  • The 21 percent of students whose parents are immigrants will have less of a chance to assimilate.

  • But the Oriental we can't assimilate, for all our ostrich-like digestion, and what we can't assimilate we won't have.

  • We assimilate anything white so quickly it is a wonder an immigrant remembers the native way of pronouncing his own name.

  • At this moment he was in the act of despoiling both ancient and modern philosophy of all their wealth in order to assimilate it.

  • These gardens are rather like oriental flower-plots, but they assimilate well with the climate.

  • Poetry is unable, under pain of death or decay, to assimilate itself to morals or science.