| 英语单词 | saturate |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['sætʃəreɪt] 美 ['sætʃəreɪt] |
| 中文释义 | v.使浸透;使充满;使饱和 adj.浸透的;饱和的;深颜色的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) We lay on the beach, saturated in sunshine. (2) We were caught in the rain and came home saturated. (3) The air was saturated with the perfume of the flowers. (4) The films manufactured by Hollywood are saturated in the cinemas all over the world. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我们躺在沙滩上,沐浴在阳光里。 (2) 我们挨了雨淋, 回家时已浑身湿透。 (3) 空气中飘荡着花香。 (4) 在全世界电影市场上充斥着好莱坞的影片。 |
| vocabulary简明 | The verb saturate means to cause something to be fully soaked to the point where it can't take on anything else. A heavy rainstorm can saturate the ground, leaving puddles on the lawn because no more water can be absorbed. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The word saturate comes from the Latin word saturatus, meaning "to fill full, sate, drench." Saturate is often used to describe the aftermath of a big rainstorm, but other things can be saturated as well. If you're a workaholic, you might saturate all your free time with work, leaving no time to spend with your family. In chemistry, saturate describes causing one substance, like a solution, to take on the greatest amount of another substance. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [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] [
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2 [VERB 动词]浸透;渗透;使湿透 If someone or something is saturated, they become extremely wet. [ [Also V n] [usu passive]
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