assimilate
/əˈsɪmɪleɪt/verb
with obj.
1
- take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or culture)吸收, 领会（信息、思想或文化）：
Marie tried to assimilate the week's events.
玛丽试着想明白这个星期里发生的事。
1.1
- （一般作 be assimilated）absorb and integrate (people, ideas, or culture) into a wider society or culture使（民族、思想或文化）同化：
pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream with alarming speed.
流行趋势以惊人的速度融入主流文化。
1.2
- no obj. become absorbed and integrated in this way被吸收, 被同化：
the older generation had more trouble assimilating.
老一辈人很难被同化。
1.3
- absorb or integrate and use for one's own benefit吸收并利用, 汲取：
the music business assimilated whatever aspects of punk it could turn into profit.
音乐业界吸收利用了朋客乐可以带来商业利润的各个方面。
1.4
- （一般作 be assimilated）(of the body or any biological system) absorb and digest (food or nutrients)（身体, 任何生物体）吸收, 消化（食物, 养料）。
2
- regard as similar; liken认为相似, 使相似：
philosophers had assimilated thought to perception.
哲学家认为思维与感知相似。
2.1
- no obj. become similar成为相似：
the Churches assimilated to a certain cultural norm.
宗教信仰近似于某种文化准则。
2.2
- Phonetics make (a sound) more like another in the same or next word【语音】使（语音）同化。
派生词
assimilable
adjectiveassimilation
nounassimilative
adjectiveassimilator
nounassimilatory
adjective词源
late Middle English: from Latin assimilat- 'absorbed， incorporated'， from the verb assimilare, from ad- 'to' + similis 'like'.