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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.absorb; suck up; assimilate; imbibe; draw
她努力吸收新知识。
She tried to assimilate new knowledge.
有些食物很容易被吸收。
Some food assimilates easily.
项目需要吸收外资。
The project needs to absorb foreign capital.
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- 2
v.moderate or offset certain phenomena or the impact of something, such as a spring absorbing shock and sound-insulating paper taking in sound
有什么物体可以吸收光线?
What objects can absorb light?
这种墙壁能吸收噪音。
The walls absorb the noise.
雪融化吸收大量热量。
Melting snow absorbs a lot of heat.
- 3
v.recruit; enroll; admit
汉语中吸收了很多外来语。
Chinese has taken on a large amount of loanwords.
这个新政党多半由劳工阶层吸收新党员。
The new party was largely recruited from the labor classes.
俱乐部需要吸收新会员。
The club needs to recruit new members.
- 4
v.metabolize constructively; transform (food) into living tissue by the process of anabolism, such as the intestinal mucous membrane assimilating nutrition, and the root of a plant drawing water and inorganic salt; absorb or assimilate (food or nutriment and incorporate it into the tissues)
结肠是吸收营养的一个重要器官。
The colon is an important organ for the absorption of nutrients.
树从土壤中吸收大量水分和营养。
Trees absorb large amounts of water and nutrients from the soil.
干沙吸收水分。
Dry sand absorbs water.
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v.sorption; uptake; intake
吸收作用
sorption