assimilated 吸收
- We assimilated many new experience on our European trip.
我们从欧洲之行中吸收 了许多新的经验。 - America has assimilated millions of immigrants into its way of life.
美国已将成千上万的移民同化了。 - These meteorites, comets, or other unknowns may have contained vital components with which budding life on Earth either assimilated or used as a catalyst to create itself.
在这些陨石、彗星,或其他不明物体中可能包含一些重要成分,它们或被吸收,或作为催化剂,自我复制并让地球萌发生机。
Assimilate \As*sim"i*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assimilated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Assimilating}.] [L. assimilatus, p. p. of
assimilare; ad + similare to make like, similis like. See
{Similar}, {Assemble}, {Assimilate}.]
1. To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a
resemblance between. --Sir M. Hale.
To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. --John
Bright.
Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes
Assimilate all objects. --Cowper.
2. To liken; to compa?e. [R.]
3. 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.
Hence also animals and vegetables may assimilate
their nourishment. --Sir I.
Newton.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
--Merivale.