engross
英 [ɪn'grəʊs; en-]
美 [ɪn'ɡros]
- vt. 使全神贯注；用大字体书写；正式写成（决议等）；独占；吸引
engross 中文词源
engross 使全神贯注en-, 进入，使。gross, 总的，全部的。
engross 英文词源
- engross
- 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.
engross 双语例句
1. His paper would then engross his thoughts. 然后,他就会埋头看报了. 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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