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Imbue Imbued Fill Sponge N D Sense 英

英语单词 imbue
英美音标 英 [ɪm'bjuː] 美 [ɪm'bjuː]
中文释义 v.灌输;使感染;使充满
英语例句 (1) He managed to imbue his employees with team spirit.
(2) You should imbue your children with ambition to succeed
中文例句 (1) 他成功激发起雇员的团队精神。
(2) 你应该使你的孩子充满希望成功的雄心。
vocabulary简明 To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water. One visit to Africa might be enough to imbue ambitions in a medical student to return to heal the sick.
vocabulary扩展 You can use imbue in a similar way as "saturate," or "soak through," to describe a filling or absorbing. A "hue" is a color, and it rhymes with imbue. When you're imbued with something, you are, in a way, colored by it. If you imbue a dish sponge with oily orange water from a spaghetti bowl, the color and the oil soak in. To fill people with qualities or emotions is, for example, to imbue them with strength or optimism.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]向…灌输;使充满 If someone or something is imbued with an idea, feeling, or quality, they become filled with it.
  [be V-ed with n]
  [V n with n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder.

    你仔细听,就会注意到每一个词都是那么的神奇,令人惊叹。

  • ...men who can imbue their hearers with enthusiasm.

    能够激发听众热情的人

imbued
  • ...a Guards officer imbued with a military sense of duty and loyalty.

    满怀军人责任感、高度忠诚的护卫队军官

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