单词 | soak |
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音标 | [səuk] |
解释 | v.浸泡,渗透 |
红宝书 | 无 |
字源 | soak (v.) Old English socian (intransitive) "to soak, to lie in liquid," from Proto-Germanic *sukon (cognates: West Flemish soken), possibly from PIE *sug-, from root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (see sup (v.2)). Transitive sense "drench, permeate thoroughly" is from mid-14c.; that of "cause to lie in liquid" is from early 15c. Meaning "take up by absorption" is from 1550s. Slang meaning "to overcharge" first recorded 1895. Related: Soaked; soaking. As a noun, mid-15c., from the verb. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 无 |
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