| 单词 | soak |
| 释义 | soak I. intransitive verb 1. < let the beans soak overnight > < put the clothes to soak > < likes to get in the tub and soak > 2. a. < rain soaks into the ground > < blood soaking through the bandage > < the porous quality of the brick into which the light seemed to soak as if absorbed — Herbert Read > < the warmth soaked into his legs — Oliver La Farge > < dawn was soaking into the sky over the tops of the trees — R.H.Newman > b. < waited for the remark to soak in — O.S.J.Gogarty > < will let it soak into my subconscious — W.H.Upson > < the idea of web defense soaking into troops — Tom Wintringham > 3. < soaking all night at the bar > 4. transitive verb 1. < the meteorologist watched the solid drenching sheets soak the ground — Hilbert Schenck > < unable to fire a shot because of soaked cartridges and drowned powder horns — F.V.W.Mason > < two entire annual layers had been soaked by the summer meltwater — Valter Schytt > < the house … made of sun-soaked red brick — Edith Sitwell > < an atmosphere soaked with insatiable interest in international law — G.F.Renier > 2. a. < soak the clothes before washing > < soak the negatives in an acid solution > < bread soaked in milk — Agnes Repplier > < soaked overnight in vinegar and olive oil — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < soaked himself in the sunshine — Archibald Marshall > < his irony … was soaked in vitriol — Max Lerner > < a drama soaked … in blood and rape — Leslie Rees > < books soaked in sentiment — Hubert Herring > < soaked himself in booze — V.P.Hass > b. < soak yourself in art > < start right off not only to expose yourself to, but to soak yourself in, those fields of knowledge — Bennett Cerf > < soak himself in American history — Nieman Reports > < until recently nearly all writers have been soaked in classical and renaissance literature — A.N.Whitehead > 3. a. < soak the dirt out of the clothes > < apply a poultice to soak out the poison > b. (1) obsolete < all plants that do draw much nourishment from the earth, and so soak the earth, and exhaust it — Francis Bacon > (2) < neither the newspaper nor its millionaire executives were ever soaked very hard by the tax collectors — D.D.McKean > < soak the rich > < soaking the tourist is a popular … sport — A.T.Steele > 4. a. < down the coast bathers cavorted and soaked sun — Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican > — usually used with up < plaster walls soaked up the rain — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > < partitions soak up sound — advt > < inserting the bar to a length that soaks up enough neutrons — Leon Svirsky > < soaked up the sunshine — Nelson Glueck > < electronics is soaking up much of the surplus labor and plant space — R.B.Cole > < traveled … to soak up the atmosphere there — Walter Sullivan > < philosophizing about the law does not amount to much until one has soaked in the details — O.W.Holmes †1935 > b. < coming home half soaked, he can hardly climb the stairs > 5. 6. < the jury comes in loaded to soak an anarchist and a foreigner — Maxwell Anderson > 7. 8. II. 1. a. < might as well put them in soak tonight — Ellen Glasgow > b. (1) (2) 2. Australia a. b. c. 3. a. < a real soak … he hasn't drawn a sober breath in years — Hamilton Basso > b. < succumbed to a long and legitimate soak … to pickle his sorrows — Audrey Barker > 4. slang < got a job, but my bed's in soak — E.C.Abbott & Helena Smith > |
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