Digestion
[daɪ'dʒestʃ(ə)n;dɪ-] or [daɪdʒɛstʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) learning and coming to understand ideas and information; 'his appetite for facts was better than his digestion'.
(noun.) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body.
(noun.) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat.
加德纳整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
(n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
(n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
編輯:谢尔顿
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Methodizing, digesting, classifying.[2]. Conversion of food into chyme.[3]. Macerating, maceration, steeping.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect vices are evolved instead—a circumstance from which that wicked writer Dr. Jeremiah Blenn infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
校對:维多利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I injured my digestion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A greater quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter digestion than others. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion, he would say in answer to my medical remonstrances. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Exercise should precede meals, not immediately follow them; the first promotes, the latter, unless moderate, obstructs digestion. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He has the constitution of a rhinoceros, the digestion of an ostrich, and the concentration of an oyster. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Is not the natural heat of animals thus produced, by separating in digestion the parts of food, and setting their fire at liberty? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The doctors tell me that's what has knocked my digestion out--being so infernally jealous of her. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- They that study much ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their digestion being not so good. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- If I could be less affectionate and sensitive, I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Beaumont’s discoveries in Digestion (Alexis San Martin 1825-32). Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- My digestion is much impaired, and I am but a poor knife and fork at any time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The laudanum must find the process of digestion, as nearly as may be, where the laudanum found it last year. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I find him accord with my digestion and my bilious system. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Many who could tolerate slavery upon the plantations found the slave trade too much for their moral digestions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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