absorb

• vt. 吸收；吸引；承受；理解；使…全神贯注

前缀ab-,此处用于强调义。词根sorb,吸收，吮吸，拟声词。

1. become imbued;

"The liquids, light, and gases absorb"

2. take up mentally;

"he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"

3. take up, as of debts or payments;

"absorb the costs for something"

4. take in, also metaphorically;

"The sponge absorbs water well"

"She drew strength from the minister's words"

5. cause to become one with;

"The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax"

6. suck or take up or in;

"A black star absorbs all matter"

7. engross (oneself) fully;

"He immersed himself into his studies"

8. assimilate or take in;

"The immigrants were quickly absorbed into society"

9. engage or engross wholly;

"Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"

absorb

absorb: [15] Absorb comes, via French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ab- ‘away’ 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.

absorb, suck, digest, incorporate

这些动词均有"吸收"之意。

absorb：普通用词，词义广泛，既可指吸收光、热、液体等具体东西，又可指吸收知识等抽象概念的东西。

suck：作"吸收"解时，可与absorb换用，但还可有"吮吸"之意。

digest：侧重在消化道内改变食物的化学结构后被人体吸收。

incorporate：指一物或多物与它物相融合，形成一整体。

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations ( ' , 感受) and the experiences.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Get off a stop earlier, make a circuit of the park at lunchtime, walk the child to and from school, get a dog, feel yourself moving in moving air, look, listen, absorb.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Left alone, it was assumed, the world's rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Lots of people swear they can absorb new information more efficiently at some times of the day than at others.

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Research shows that when we absorb information in order to teach it to someone else, we learn it more accurately and deeply, perhaps in part because we are engaging our social cognition.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Absorbed in painting, john didn't notice evening approaching.

2015年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

But a transparent animal doesn't have pigments, so its tissues won't absorb light.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

However, when something did interest me, I could become absorbed.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

I don't want to get too absorbed in modeling.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文

It takes sunscreen about fifteen minutes to start working, and that's plenty of time for your skin to absorb a day's worth of Vitamin D.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Living materials can stop light because they contain pigments that absorb specific colors of light.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Others absorb light, stopping it dead in its tracks.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

To become transparent, an animal needs to keep its body from absorbing or scattering light.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

We both became absorbed in the simplicity of playing together.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

While watching TV, children do not merely absorb words and images.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Helping forests flourish as valuable "carbon sinks" long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The climate change we are hastening could one day leave us with forests that emit more carbon than they absorb.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The company is unable to absorb such huge losses.

公司无法承担如此巨大的亏损。

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Plants absorb oxygen.

植物吸收氧气。

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The cream is easily absorbed into the skin.

这种乳霜皮肤易吸收。

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The surrounding small towns have been absorbed into the city.

四周的小城镇已并入这座城市。

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The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.

这个国家实在没有能力接纳这么多涌入的难民。

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It's a lot of information to absorb all at once.

要一下子消化这么多资料，真是很难。

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This work had absorbed him for several years.

这项工作曾使他沉迷了好几年。

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Black walls absorb a lot of heat during the day.

黑色墙壁在白天吸收大量的热。

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This tennis racket absorbs shock on impact.

这个网球拍能减轻撞击所产生的剧烈震动。

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The new proposals would absorb $80 billion of the federal budget.

这些新提案将耗费800亿元联邦政府预算。

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...a second career which absorbed her more completely than her acting ever had.

比演艺生涯更让她投入的又一职业

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A household radiator absorbs energy in the form of electric current and releases it in the form of heat.

家用取暖器吸收电流能量，再以热量的形式释放出来。

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The Colonial Office was absorbed into the Foreign Office.

殖民部被并入了外交部。

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...an economy capable of absorbing thousands of immigrants.

能够吸纳数千移民的经济实体

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...footwear which does not absorb the impact of the foot striking the ground.

不具备减震功能的鞋子

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The banks would be forced to absorb large losses...

银行将被迫承受巨大的损失。

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We can't absorb those costs.

我们负担不起那些费用。

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It absorbed vast amounts of capital that could have been used for investment...

它消耗掉了原本可用于投资的大笔资金。

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It might help if campaigning didn't absorb so much time and money.

如果竞选活动没耗费这么多的时间和金钱，情况或许还不会这么糟。

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Too often he only absorbs half the information in the manual...

他对于说明书上所说的经常是一知半解。

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We closed our offices at 2:00 p.m. to give employees time to absorb the bad news.

我们下午两点就放工了，以便给员工时间来慢慢接受这一坏消息。

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Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and moisture from the soil...

植物从空气中吸收二氧化碳并从土壤中汲取水分。

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Refined sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream very quickly.

精制糖迅速吸收进血液中。

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