Picture a dry sponge dropped onto a : the water does not sit on top, it goes in and disappears into the sponge. Two things follow from that one picture — the sponge now holds what it took in, and the is gone. English uses the first half for taking in water, heat and information, and the second half for a shock, a cost, or a small company that vanishes into a big one.
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原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
absorbverb/əbˈzɔːb/
- 1
To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all.
- In some countries, the large cities absorb the wealth and fashion of the nation; they are the only fixed abodes of elegant and intelligent society, and the country is inhabited almost entirely by boorish peasantry.
- 2
obsoleteTo engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
- to be absorpt, or swallowed up, in a lake of fire and brimstone.
- 3
To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- 4
To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- The drops of water slowly absorbed into the dry sponge.
- 5
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo take in energy and convert it.
- Heat, light, and electricity are absorbed in the substances into which they pass.
- 6
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo take in energy and convert it.
- 7
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo take in energy and convert it.
- 8
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo take in energy and convert it.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- Geeka was cooking dinner. As the little girl played she prattled continuously to her companion, propped in a sitting position with a couple of twigs. She was totally absorbed in the domestic duties of Geeka – so much so that she did not note the gentle swaying of the branches of the tree above her as they bent to the body of the creature that had entered them stealthily from the jungle.
- Livonian affairs held him tight, and were to absorb him for many a year.
- 10
To occupy or consume time.
- 11
To assimilate mentally.
- If we fail to absorb the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.
- 12
businessTo assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- Among the most debatable is the contention that the profit margins of small employers are insufficient to absorb the costs of health insurance
- 13
To defray the costs.
- I’ll absorb the charge for the window replacement.
- 14
To accept or purchase in quantity.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。