Assimilate
[ə'sɪmɪleɪt] or [ə'sɪməlet]
解释:
(verb.) become similar to one's environment; 'Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly'.
(verb.) make similar; 'This country assimilates immigrants very quickly'.
(verb.) become similar in sound; 'The nasal assimilates to the following consonant'.
(verb.) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution.
黛西手打--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
(v. t.) To liken; to compa/e.
(v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
(v. i.) To become similar or like something else.
(v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
(v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
安琪编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Liken, make like, bring to a resemblance.[2]. Digest, turn to one's own substance.
整理:尼古拉斯
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Compare, liken, match, engross, identify, incorporate, absorb, appropriate
ANT:Separate, segregate, part, contrast, reject
录入:麦克唐纳
解释:
v.t. to make similar or like to: to convert into a like substance as food in our bodies (with to with).—v.i. to become like or to be incorporated in.—n. Assim′ilability (Coleridge).—adj. Assim′ilable.—n. Assimilā′tion.—adj. Assim′ilātive having the power or tendency to assimilate.
杰米整理
例句:
- Those two orders the church did assimilate and use, though with a little violence in the case of the former. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Was that also to assimilate Europe and Asia, or was it to make himself independent of his Macedonians? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Mine is not the nature easily to find a duplicate or likely to assimilate with a contrast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Our tempers never can assimilate, and I will be as free as the air we breathe; but you may, indeed you must, come and visit me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Any state obsessed by traditions of an aggressive foreign policy will be difficult to assimilate into a world combination. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Partly the Huns were civilized and assimilated by the Chinese. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- First, a complex civilization is too complex to be assimilated in toto. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In this case, the earlier presentations constitute the material to which the later are to be assimilated. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- To _say_ anything on the subject, to _hint_ at my discovery, had not suited my habits of thought, or assimilated with my system of feeling. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They seem, for instance, to have broken up and assimilated the Hittite civilization, which was probably pre-Aryan in its origin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Ill-assimilated as the two were in age, sex, pursuits, &c. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We shall have put you back again into something assimilating to your nervous condition on the birthday night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Observe the dyer's hand, assimilating itself to what it works in,--or would work in, if anybody would give it anything to do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Middlemarch, in fact, counted on swallowing Lydgate and assimilating him very comfortably. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- There you sit, sir, as if you had an unlimited capacity of assimilating the flagrant article! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
整理:怀亚特