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Infuse N   [V Tea Means Liquid Fill Quality

英语单词 infuse
英美音标 英 [ɪn'fjuːz] 美 [ɪn'fjuːz]
中文释义 vt.注入;使获得;鼓舞;泡制;倾注(液体)
英语例句 (1) We must infuse new blood into the Party.
(2) The news infused the workers with new life.
(3) Don't drink the tea until it has finished infusing.
中文例句 (1) 我们必须给党注入新鲜血液。
(2) 那条消息使工人获得新的活力。
(3) 等茶泡好后再喝。
vocabulary简明 To infuse is to steep something in a liquid to extract the flavors from it. You'll impress your friends with your cooking if you infuse rosemary and thyme in broth and then use the liquid to marinate chicken.
vocabulary扩展 To infuse also means to inspire or fill with a certain quality. You goal might be to infuse your writing with such humor that your readers laugh until they cry. The medical meaning of infuse is to introduce a medicinal therapy through a patient's vein. When you're badly dehydrated, doctors may need to infuse you with fluids. The Latin root infusus means "to pour into."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]把…注入;灌输 To infuse a quality into someone or something, or to infuse them with a quality, means to fill them with it.
  [be V-ed with n]
  [V n into n]
  [Also V n with n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Many of the girls seemed to be infused with excitement on seeing the snow...

    看到雪,许多女孩似乎一下子变得兴奋起来。

  • A union would infuse unnecessary conflict into the company's employee relations.

    工会会把不必要的冲突带入公司员工关系当中。

2
[VERB 动词]使充满 If a quality infuses something, every part of that thing has that quality.
  [V n]
  [LITERARY 文]
  • A strange spirit infused the place.

    那个地方散发着一种奇特的气质。

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[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]浸渍;泡(茶);泡制(草药) If you infuse things such as tea leaves or herbs, or allow them to infuse, you put them in hot water for some time so that the water absorbs their flavour. You can also infuse things in other liquids.
  [V n]
  [V n in n]
  [V]
  • ...teas made by infusing the roots of herbs...

    浸泡草药根沏成的茶水

  • Herbalists infuse the flowers in oil...

    草药大夫把花朵浸泡到油里。

  • Leave the tea to infuse.

    让茶叶泡开。

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