absorb: [15] Absorb comes, via French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ab- ‘away’ and sorbēre ‘suck up, swallow’. Words connected with drinking and swallowing quite often contain the sounds s or sh, r, and b or p – Arabic, for instance, has surāb, which gave us syrup – and this noisy gulping seems to have been reflected in
权威例句
1. The material can absorb outward-going radiation from the Earth.
该物质可以吸收地球向外辐射的能量。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The banks would be forced to absorb large losses.
银行将被迫承受巨大的损失。
来自柯林斯例句
3. His ability to absorb bits of disconnected information was astonishing.
