digest
英 [daɪ'dʒest; dɪ-]
美 [daɪ'dʒɛst]
- vt. 消化;吸收;融會貫通
- vi. 消化
- n. 文摘;摘要
助記提示
1、di- / dis- "apart" + gest- "carry".
中文詞源
digest 消化,文摘dis-, 分開,散開。-gest,攜帶,含有,詞源同ingest, gesture. 即帶向不同方向,用於指消化,後也用於指文摘。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. The organization publishes a regular digest of environmental statistics.
- 該組織定期出版一份環境統計數據摘要。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. All this has upset me. I need time to digest it all.
- 所以這些都讓我心煩。我需要時間來慢慢接受這一切。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She couldn't digest food properly.
- 她無法正常消化食物。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Humans cannot digest plants such as grass.
- 人不能消化草類植物。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. It often takes a long time to digest new ideas.
- 吸收新思想往往需要很長一段時間.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》