Absorbing
[əb'zɔːbɪŋ;-'sɔːbɪŋ] or [əb'sɔrbɪŋ]
解释:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absorb
(a.) Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
整理:佩吉
例句:
- Having first seen him perfectly swallowed up in admiration of Mrs. Jellyby, I had supposed her to be the absorbing object of his devotion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The ladies were not really interested in Mrs. Struthers just then; the subject of Ellen Olenska was too fresh and too absorbing to them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Its hoary traditions make it an object of absorbing interest to even the most careless stranger, and thus far it had interest for me; but no further. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It is this same shock-absorbing device which is used to catch the recoil on the immense siege guns used in modern warfare. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Her fear had been too deep, too absorbing, too entire, to be changed to security. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Mr. Helstone neither had, nor professed to have, Mr. Yorke's absorbing passion for her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But Bell had been giving so much time and attention to this absorbing project that his teaching had suffered. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He took out a patent covering wireless telegraphy in 1891, but other matters were then absorbing his attention, and he was quite willing to yield that field to the brilliant Italian, Marconi. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It will be an immense care for Jo, said Meg, stroking the head of her one all-absorbing son. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Its possible extent, therefore, is in a manner infinite in comparison of that of the other two, and is capable of absorbing the greatest capitals. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The Trenors are my best friends--I think we should all go a long way to see each other, she said, absorbing herself in the preparation of fresh tea. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- But shall we go down and watch this absorbing match? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Agriculture, therefore, is almost everywhere capable of absorbing a much greater capital than has ever yet been employed in it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The sudden death of Mr. Shelby, a few days after, brought, of course, an absorbing pressure of other interests, for a season. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- What is absorbing you? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Clennam's surprise was not so absorbing but that he took his resolution without any incertitude. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Once our profession becomes all absorbing it hardens into pedantry. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I was hot, vexed, confused, but still happy; but I hated the other boys for taking such an absorbing interest in the proceedings. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Jane's curiosity did not appear of that absorbing nature as wholly to occupy her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- My practice is never very absorbing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- In respect to this all-absorbing national topic, I happen to be one of the most un-English Englishmen living. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Redwood does not contain pitch, the inflammable element in wood, and, in addition, it is extremely porous, quickly absorbing water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In the second case, the heat is produced by a kind of fermentation; and in the third, by the pyrites of the coal rapidly absorbing and combining with the oxygen of the air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The very word pupil has almost come to mean one who is engaged not in having fruitful experiences but in absorbing knowledge directly. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- In the house Professor Porter and Mr. Philander were immersed in an absorbing discussion of some weighty scientific problem. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The same, but diversified, it grew, and swept onwards towards the absorbing ocean, whose dim shores we now reached. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I crumpled up the letter in my pocket, and forgot it the moment after, in the all-absorbing interest of my coming interview with Rachel. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- They have opposed pouring in from without, and absorbing like a sponge; they have attacked drilling in material as into hard and resisting rock. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- This is achieved principally by absorbing into your thinking a lively doubt about all classifications and general terms, for they are the basis of statistical measurement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
整理:佩吉