ingest
verb (specialist)- ingest something
to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing (= making them go down your throat) 摄入;食入;咽下 Food is the major source of ingested bacteria. 饮食是摄入细菌的主要渠道。 Grazing animals ingest dioxins through eating contaminated plants. 食草动物通过吃被污染的植物来摄取二恶英。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIngest is used with these nouns as the object:- calorie
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin ingest- ‘brought in’, from the verb ingerere, from in- ‘into’ + gerere ‘carry’.