Soak
[səʊk] or [sok]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) washing something by allowing it to soak.
(noun.) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); 'a good soak put life back in the wagon'.
(verb.) heat a metal prior to working it.
(verb.) fill, soak, or imbue totally; 'soak the bandage with disinfectant'.
(verb.) beat severely.
(verb.) submerge in a liquid; 'I soaked in the hot tub for an hour'.
埃尔维斯手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
(v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
(v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
(v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
(v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
(v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
(v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
(v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
博妮塔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Steep, macerate, imbrue, drench.
v. n. Steep, be soaked.
阿伊达整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Wet, steep, drench, macerate, moisten, submerge
ANT:Dry, air, wring, exsiccate, aridify, bleach
手打:路德维格
解釋/意思:
v.t. to steep in a fluid: to wet thoroughly: to drench: to draw in by the pores.—v.i. to be steeped in a liquid: to enter into pores: to drink to excess to guzzle.—n. process or act of soaking: a hard drinker a carouse.—ns. Soak′age act of soaking: the amount soaked in; Soak′er a habitual drunkard.—p.adj. Soak′ing that wets thoroughly: drenching as rain.—adv. Soak′ingly.—adj. Soak′y steeped wet.
編輯:玛杰里
例句/造句/用法:
- Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Break up the glue and soak in the water for a few hours, then heat by water-bath until melted. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- When getting ready to smoke some pieces, the farmer would first soak them twenty-four hours in clear, cold water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Unscrupulous jobbers and dealers have been known to soak the whole beans in spirits, practically stealing all their flavor, and then by drying them place them on the market. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Soak the gelatine in half a pint of water for four hours. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Soak the clothes over night in water to which has been added a table-spoonful of the fluid for each gallon of water; also add a little in washing water. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It is well they are not cows--it would soak in and ruin the milk. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Then they were out of sight around the corner of the draw and he was soaking wet with sweat and looking at nothing. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Sometimes these stains can be removed by soaking in milk, and where this is possible, it is the better method. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She cannot sing, it is my belief: her voice is as cracked as thine, O thou beer-soaking Renowner! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He moved on, and I followed him, through the darkness and the small soaking rain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Soaking into this filthy ground as you lie here, is your own shape. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Those that have lived there all their lives, are used to soaking in the stagnant waters. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Soaking in vats formerly occupied twelve or eighteen months, but under the new methods the time has been greatly reduced. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Oh, as far as cynicism goes, Andros might be a boulevardier soaked in absinthe. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- A joint of any size could be soaked; the only thing was to give it plenty of time. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The common supply of rivers is from springs, which draw their origin from rain that has soaked into the earth. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- That which soaks into the ground is the most valuable because it remains on the earth longest and is the purest. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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