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词汇 digesting
释义 digesting
present participle ofdigest
digest
verb
uk /daɪˈdʒest/ us /daɪˈdʒest/

digestverb (EAT)


C1[ I or T ]
to change food in your stomach into substances that your body can use: (使)消化
I find that I don't digest meat easily.我发现自己不容易消化肉食。
Sit still and allow your meal to digest.静静地坐着,让胃里的食物消化消化。
The adult owls feed their young with food which they've already partly digested.
Don't rush off - let's just sit here a while and digest our food.
How can you expect to digest your food properly when you eat your meals so fast?
The snake lay absolutely motionless for hours as it digested its meal.
Meat-eaters must produce extensive bile acids in their intestines to properly digest the meat that they eat.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Eating
al desko
binge
binge eating
bite
break breadidiom
cram
devour
fall on/upon someone
feast
feast on something
feeder
feeding
gulp
inhale
mainline
pick at something
picnic
pig
pig out
postprandial

digestverb (UNDERSTAND)


C1[ T ]
to read or hear new information and take the necessary time to understand it: 理解,吸收(信息)
This chapter is so difficult to digest, I'll have to read it again later.这一章不容易理解消化,稍后我还得再看一遍。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to understand something
understandI understand why he did that.
comprehendHe doesn't seem to comprehend the scale of the problem.
get the pictureOK. Don't say any more. I get the picture.
followIt was so complicated I couldn't follow what he was saying.
graspI think I grasped the main points of the lecture.
digestThis chapter is so difficult to digest. I'll have to read it again later.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Understanding and comprehending
appreciation for something
apprehend
apprehensible
apprehension
astutely
bear
colour
dot
handle
keenness
keep someone up
know a hawk from a handsawidiom
know the scoreidiom
know/see where someone is coming fromidiom
speak
tease something apart
to get a handle on somethingidiom
to have a handle on somethingidiom
tumble to something
tune in

Examples of digesting


digesting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Unless they respond actively, they will be carried passively with the digesting gut contents along the intestine and eventually voided in the faeces.
Camels are capable of digesting hard and thorny vegetables, but cannot digest grains of barley.
Yet the authors know they are asking a lot of readers, not only in digesting a mass of historical information, but also in reorienting well-settled moral perspectives.
It is a volume which all those interested in public finance, even those most familiar with the views of the protagonists, will find benefit in reading and digesting.
Hookworm larvae also secrete aspartic protease activity that is capable of digesting skin macromolecules.
Huxley gave us his science, but he did not watch us digesting it.
The proof of the pudding is in the digesting.
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We are not properly digesting some of the social research which has been done.
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Apart from the time involved in digesting their implications, they impose an additional administrative burden which directs the entrepreneur's energies away from creating wealth.
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We are now digesting the suggestions they have made.
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At the moment we are digesting the comprehensive system.
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Most of us with any experience of digesting documents would not have taken long to digest it.
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It is going perfectly well, but it is taking a certain amount of digesting.
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It must have been tough meat if his muscles were bulging with the effort of digesting it.
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It has spawned several sub-initiatives, and one —perhaps the most important—is the investigation of the complex problems connected with the digesting of data from satellites.
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