saturate

• vt. 浸透，使湿透；使饱和，使充满
• adj. 浸透的，饱和的；深颜色的

来自拉丁语 saturare,装满，浸透，来自 satur,满的，来自 PIE*sa,使充满，词源同 satiate,satisfy. 引申词义使饱和。

1. cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material, etc.) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

2. infuse or fill completely;

"Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"

saturate

saturate: [16] Latin satur meant ‘full’, and in particular ‘full of food, full up’ (it was a relative of satis ‘enough’, source of English satiate and satisfy). From it was formed a verb saturāre ‘fill, glut, surfeit’, whose past participle has given English saturate. At first this was used as a synonym of satisfy or satiate (‘so to saturate their insatiable hunger’, Thomas Bell, Survey of Popery 1596), and the modern sense ‘soak’ did not emerge fully until the mid 18th century.
=> sad, sated, satisfy

saturate (v.)

1530s, "to satisfy, satiate," from Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare "to fill full, sate, drench," from satur "sated, full," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (see sad). Meaning "soak thoroughly" first recorded 1756. Marketing sense first recorded 1958. Related: Saturated; saturating.

The continuous rain had saturated the soil.

连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。

牛津词典

The company had saturated the market for personal organizers (= so that no new buyers could be found) .

那家公司的产品已使电子记事簿市场饱和。

牛津词典

In the last days before the vote, both sides are saturating the airwaves...

选举前最后几天，竞选双方占用了所有的广播电台和电视台。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

As the market was saturated with goods and the economy became more balanced, inflation went down.

随着市场上商品饱和，经济趋于平衡，通货膨胀就减弱了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

If the filter has been saturated with motor oil, it should be discarded and replaced.

过滤器如果已被机油浸透，则应丢弃并换上新的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The normally muzzled Chinese press has been saturate the airwaves with quake coverage.

往常被钳制的中国媒体得到允许,能够通过电视广播自由报导地震新闻.

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To saturate with water and make soggy or unusable.

吸取过量用水浸透使湿润或不能用.

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Saturate a cotton wool pad and sweep across a cleansed face and neck.

用化妆棉沾适量并涂于面部及颈部.

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Also, his government dominates the media, which saturate the country with his propaganda.

并且, 他的政府控制了媒体, 这媒体使这个国家充满了他的宣传.

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In addition, cable will encounter contention problems when multiple concurrent users saturate a link.

此外,当很多同时用户使一个链路饱和时, 有线电视系统还会碰到争夺问题.

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The effective permeability is stated as some numerical value at some given saturate conditions.

有效渗透率用在一定饱和条件下的数值表示.

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Saturate the moss with water before planting the bulbs in it.

在种植球茎于苔藓中之前,先用水浸透苔藓.

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The color laydown is very even and will saturate heavy watercolor paper easily.

颜色laydown是非常均匀,将沉重的水彩纸容易饱和.

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Thus, growers should saturate the planting with bees at bloom time.

因此在花期, 果园最好是蜜蜂满园.

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On the same conditions , the device begin to saturate when IF power reaches ? 5 dBm.

中频输入功率大约在-5dBm时开始进入饱和状态.

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The searchings seem to contradict the sensual saturate the ads in female magazines.

这一些研究结果似乎跟充斥于女孩合订本中的各种性感广告相矛盾.

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Saturate the meat in the mixture of oil and herbs.

把肉浸泡在油和作料的卤汁里.

辞典例句

Wax oil have deep saturate of wood for a very long time.

蜡油深深浸透木材很长一段时间.

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Scrub in small circles and be careful to saturate the wood.

擦洗时可以打着小圈,注意不要浸透木头.

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We'll saturate California with the rise in its crime rate.

我们将使加利福尼亚州的犯罪案件增长率达到饱和点.

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