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词汇释义
imbibe
UK /ɪmˈbaɪb/ US /ɪmˈbaɪb/TEM8IELTS GRE
1. vt, To imbibe alcohol means to drink it. 饮，喝酒
2. vt, If you imbibe ideas or arguments, you listen to them, accept them, and believe that they are right or true.吸收，接受(思想或观点)
外刊例句
1. Hundreds of different beers line the back room walls like wallpaper and are available to imbibe on the spot or to purchase individually for take out; which is a much rarer thing than you'd think, as Pennsylvania liquor laws are mostly relics imposed in the 1930s by temperance heads, still sore about the repeal.(The Guardian - Travel)
2. A SHARP new message will soon be delivered to the 15m men who gather every Friday in mosques all over Turkey to imbibe the latest spiritual guidance, on anything from foreign policy to personal cleanliness, from the country's state-appointed prayer leaders.(The Economist)
3. He complains that the American elite no longer thinks American culture is worth preserving, and therefore no longer insists that immigrants imbibe it.(The Economist)
4. Anthony Maher, a Siemens director, says that senior managers will be transferred to Unisphere to "imbibe" its entrepreneurial culture.Despite these relatively modest purchases, both companies at least look better equipped than before to defend their traditional markets from the Americans.(The Economist)
5. Angelique Krembs of Pepsi says the new drink is aimed at consumers who are keen to imbibe less sugar with their cola but dislike the taste of diet drinks.(The Economist)
6. It had a Goldilocks location (close enough to Europe to imbibe its heat, distant enough to avoid many of its wars) and a Goldilocks state (strong enough to work, weak enough to keep out of the way).(The Economist)
7. The FDA says adults should imbibe no more than 400mg a day.(The Economist)
8. Scottish fans who imbibe gallons of beer and whisky and who occasionally bare their bottoms are readily forgiven. But then the French have always had a soft spot for perfidious Albion's northern neighbours.
(The Economist)
9. Poles, said the former Israeli leader Yitzhak Shamir, "imbibe anti-Semitism with their mother's milk. Certainly prejudice was prevalent in pre-war Poland; but many Poles defied it.(The Economist)
10. A 2001 Harvard study found that fewer students on dry campuses drink, but those who do imbibe just as much as their counterparts at "wet" places.Universities are fighting the demon in other ways.(The Economist)
11. There Ethiopians imbibe the gospel of industrialisation overseen by a strong state that exerts tight control over an ethnically diverse population with a history of strife.But all is not well in the relationship.(The Economist)
12. Almajiri means "immigrant", signifying that the children come from far and wide to imbibe Islamic values.In Yola, capital of the north-eastern state of Adamawa, a 12-year-old called Abdul says he was sent by his parents to one such school two years ago and has not seen them since.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
imbibe + alcohol, idea, arguement
词汇来源
late 14c., from Old French imbiber, embiber "to soak into," and directly from Latin imbibere "absorb, drink in, inhale," from assimilated form of in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + bibere "to drink," related to potare "to drink," from PIE root *po(i)- "to drink." Figurative sense of "mentally drink in" (knowledge, ideas, etc.) was the main one in classical Latin, first attested in English 1550s. Related: Imbibed; imbibing.
近义词
drink, gulp, guzzle, quaff, sip, slurp, swig
absorb, take up, understand, comprehend
反义词
eject, exude, release, discharge, secrete, seep, transude, excrete, emanate, leak, give off, give out
discard, misunderstand, reject
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