engross
英 [ɪnˈɡrəʊs]
美 [ɪnˈɡroʊs]
- vt. 使全神贯注;用大字体书写;正式写成(决议等);独占;吸引
为了记忆单词“engross”,可以采用以下简单方法:
想象自己全神贯注地“包围”(gross)一部文学作品或艺术品,感觉自己完全被内容吸引,无法自拔。这里的“engross”结合了“en-”(加强语气)和“gross”(全部、完全),形成一个整体印象,即“全神贯注地包围”或“完全吸收”。
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engross 使全神贯注en-, 进入,使。gross, 总的,全部的。
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engross: see gross
- engross (v.)
- c. 1400, "to buy up the whole stock of" (in Anglo-French from c. 1300), from Old French en gros "in bulk, in a large quantity, at wholesale," as opposed to en detail. See gross.
Figurative sense of "absorb the whole attention" is first attested 1709. A parallel engross, meaning "to write (something) in large letters," is from Anglo-French engrosser, from Old French en gros "in large (letters)." Related: Engrossed; engrossing.
- 1. His paper would then engross his thoughts.
- 然后,他就会埋头看报了.
- 2. Gentlemen pay her attention , and engross her all to themselves.
- 先生们对她百般奉承,把她弄得神魂颠倒.
- 3. I'd go into bookshops and engross myself in diet books - and cookbooks.
- 我走进书店,聚精会神地读关于饮食的书 -- 以及食谱.
- 4. But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.
- 她虽然难免想到自己, 却并不是完全只想到自己.
- 5. But Perdita seemed to engross all Leontes'attention.
- 可是里昂提斯的全部注意力好像都贯注在潘狄塔身上.