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Saturate Saturated ˈsætʃəreɪt Market Completely N Saturating D

To saturate means to fill something completely until no more can be added, or to make something thoroughly wet. It can also refer to overwhelming a market with a product.

To "saturate" means to fill something completely, so that no more can be added, or to make something extremely wet. In a market context, it means to fill it with so much of a product that demand is met or exceeded.

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/sæ̱tʃʊreɪt/
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[VERB 动词]使充满;使饱和 If people or things saturate a place or object, they fill it completely so that no more can be added.
  [V n]
  [be V-ed with n]
  • In the last days before the vote, both sides are saturating the airwaves...

    选举前最后几天,竞选双方占用了所有的广播电台和电视台。

  • As the market was saturated with goods and the economy became more balanced, inflation went down.

    随着市场上商品饱和,经济趋于平衡,通货膨胀就减弱了。

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  • As the domestic market becomes saturated, firms begin to export the product.

    由于国内市场饱和,各公司开始外销。

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[VERB 动词]浸透;渗透;使湿透 If someone or something is saturated, they become extremely wet.
  [be V-ed]
  [Also V n]
  [usu passive]
  • If the filter has been saturated with motor oil, it should be discarded and replaced.

    过滤器如果已被机油浸透,则应丢弃并换上新的。

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  • His work clothes, having become saturated with oil, had to be cleaned.

    他的工作服已经被油浸透,该洗洗了。


Oxford sat·ur·ate / ˈsætʃəreɪt ; NAmE ˈsætʃəreɪt / verb 1 saturatesth to make sth completely wet 使湿透;浸透 SYN
soak
The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
2 [often passive ] saturatesth/sb (with/in sth) to fill sth/sb completely with sth so that it is impossible or useless to add any more 使充满;使饱和 The company had saturated the market for personal organizers (= so that no new buyers could be found). 那家公司的产品已使电子记事簿市场饱和。 saturate saturates saturated saturating
sat·ur·ate / ˈsætʃəreɪt ; NAmE ˈsætʃəreɪt /
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saturate1 verb
saturate2 noun
saturatesat‧u‧rate1 /ˈsætʃəreɪt/ verb [transitive]
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1formal to make something very wet SYN  soak OPP  dry:  Water poured through the hole, saturating the carpet.2to put a lot of something into a particular place, especially so that you could not add any moresaturate something with something Our culture is saturated with television and advertising.3saturate the market to offer so much of a product for sale that there is more than people want to buy4technical to mix as much of a solid into a chemical mixture as possible
saturate1 verb
saturate2 noun
saturatesat‧u‧rate2 /ˈsætʃərət/ noun [countable usually plural] a type of fat from meat or milk products that is thought to be less healthy than other kinds of fat from vegetables or fish SYN  saturated fat:  Choose a type of spread that’s lower in saturates than butter.
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saturate

[ˈsætʃəreɪt]saturated, saturating, saturates

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saturated[755]
使饱和(28%),使充满(22%),使浸透(15%),饱和的(13%),浸透的(11%),深颜色的(11%)
adj.浸透的,饱和的;深颜色的
vt.浸透,使湿透;使饱和,使充满

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