digest
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they digest | |
| he / she / it digests | |
| past simple digested | |
| past participle digested | |
| -ing form digesting |
- [transitive, intransitive] digest (something)
when you digest food, or it digests, it is changed into substances that your body can use 消化 Humans cannot digest plants such as grass. 人不能消化草类植物。 You should allow a little time after a meal for the food to digest. 饭后你应该留点时间让食物消化。
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatingc1, Biologyc1He has to avoid fat because his body can't digest it. 他得避免摄入脂肪，因为他的身体消化不了。 Some foods are digested more easily than others. 有些食物较其他食物更容易消化。 The parent bird partially digests food in its crop. 亲鸟将嗉囊中的食物部份地消化。 partially digested food 部份消化的食物
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
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chemistry 化学 to treat a substance with heat, enzymes or a solvent (1) in order to break it down or obtain other substances that can be used 消化 - digest something
The plant uses anaerobic bacteria to digest organic material and release methane gas. 该工厂使用厌氧菌消化有机物质并释放甲烷气体。 - digest something with something
These DNA fagments were digested with the appropriate enzymes. 这些脱氧核糖核酸是用适当的酶消化的。
- digest something
- [transitive] digest something
to think about something so that you fully understand it 领会；领悟；理解 He paused, waiting for her to digest the information. 他停了一会儿，等她慢慢领会这一信息。 The news was hard to digest. 这一消息让人很难接受。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin digest- ‘distributed, dissolved, digested’, from the verb digerere, from di- ‘apart’ + gerere ‘carry’; the noun from Latin digesta ‘matters methodically arranged’, from digestus ‘divided’, from digerere.