absorb
英 [əb'zɔːb; -'sɔːb]
美 [əb'zɔb]
- 吸収する；引きつける；耐える；理解する；...に集中させる
語源
吸収接頭辞 ab-、ここでは強調のために使われる。語根sorb、吸収する、吸う、擬音語。
英語の語源
- absorb
- absorb: [15] Absorb comes, via French absorber, from Latin absorbēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ab- ‘away’ and sorbēre ‘suck up, swallow’. Words connected with drinking and swallowing quite often contain the sounds s or sh, r, and b or p – Arabic, for instance, has surāb, which gave us syrup – and this noisy gulping seems to have been reflected in an Indo- European base, *srobh-, which lies behind both Latin sorbēre and Greek ropheín ‘suck up’.
- absorb (v.)
- early 15c., from Middle French absorber (Old French assorbir, 13c.), from Latin absorbere "to swallow up," from ab- "from" (see ab-) + sorbere "suck in," from PIE root *srebh- "to suck, absorb" (cognates: Armenian arbi "I drank," Greek rhopheo "to sup greedily up, gulp down," Lithuanian srebiu "to drink greedily"). Figurative meaning "to completely grip (one's) attention" is from 1763. Related: Absorbed; absorbing.
例文
- 1. The material can absorb outward-going radiation from the Earth.
- この物質は地球から外へ放射されるエネルギーを吸収することができる。
- 2.The banks would be forced to absorb large losses.
- 銀行は大きな損失を強いられます。
- 3.His ability to absorb bits of disconected information was astonishing.
- 相互に関連しない零細情報を吸収利用する彼のエネルギーは驚くべきものだった。
- 4.Steel barriers can bend and absorb the shock.
- 鋼製フェンスは曲げて衝撃力を吸収することができます。
- 5.We can 't absorb those costs.
- 私たちはその費用を負担できません。