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absorb
英 [əb'zɔːb; -'sɔːb] 美 [əb'zɔb]
这里集中整理“absorb”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- vt. 吸收；吸引；承受；理解；使…全神贯注
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
第三人称单数: absorbs;过去式: absorbed;过去分词: absorbed;现在分词: absorbing;
中文词源
absorb 吸收
前缀ab-,此处用于强调义。词根sorb,吸收，吮吸，拟声词。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. The material can absorb outward-going radiation from the Earth.
- 该物质可以吸收地球向外辐射的能量。
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- 2. 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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- 3. His ability to absorb bits of disconnected information was astonishing.
- 他吸收利用互不相关的零碎信息的能耐惊人。
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- 4. Steel barriers can bend and absorb the shock.
- 钢制栅栏可以弯曲并能吸收冲击力。
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- 5. We can't absorb those costs.
- 我们负担不起那些费用。
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