digest
英 [daɪ'dʒest; dɪ-]
美 [daɪ'dʒɛst]
- vt. 消化;吸收;融会贯通
- vi. 消化
- n. 文摘;摘要
助记提示
1、di- / dis- "apart" + gest- "carry".
中文词源
digest 消化,文摘dis-, 分开,散开。-gest,携带,含有,词源同ingest, gesture. 即带向不同方向,用于指消化,后也用于指文摘。
英文词源
- digest
- digest: [15] English took the verb digest from dīgest-, the past participle of Latin dīgerere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dī- ‘apart’ and gerere ‘carry’, and originally meant ‘divide, distribute’ – a sense which developed via ‘dissolve’ into the specifically physiological ‘dissolve and obtain nutrients from food in the body’.
A further semantic offshoot of ‘distribute’ was ‘orderly arrangement’, and in fact the earliest use of the word in English was as the noun digest ‘summary of information’ [14], from Latin dīgesta, the neuter plural of the past participle, literally ‘things arranged’.
=> congest, gesture, ingest - digest (n.)
- "collection of writing," late 14c., from Latin digesta, from neuter plural of digestus, literally "digested thing," noun use of past participle of digerere "to separate, divide, arrange," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + gerere "to carry" (see gest).
- digest (v.)
- "assimilate food in bowels," late 14c., from Latin digestus (see digest (n.)). Related: Digested; digesting.
双语例句
- 1. The organization publishes a regular digest of environmental statistics.
- 该组织定期出版一份环境统计数据摘要。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. All this has upset me. I need time to digest it all.
- 所以这些都让我心烦。我需要时间来慢慢接受这一切。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. She couldn't digest food properly.
- 她无法正常消化食物。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Humans cannot digest plants such as grass.
- 人不能消化草类植物。
来自《权威词典》
- 5. It often takes a long time to digest new ideas.
- 吸收新思想往往需要很长一段时间.
来自《简明英汉词典》