Saturate

(verb.) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.

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• He wanted to touch them all, to saturate himself with the touch of them all. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was such a fine, cool, subtle touch all over him, he seemed to saturate himself with their contact. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It consists of a series of silk disks saturated with a sizing of plumbago and well dried. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The principle of the lamp is similar to that of the candle, except that the wick is saturated with kerosene or oil rather than with fat. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Venn now bethought himself of his clothes, which were saturated with water to the weight of lead. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In passing through materials saturated with water, the shield is assisted by using compressed air in the working chamber. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• His valet stood behind him with a smelling-bottle ready in one hand, and a white handkerchief, saturated with eau-de-Cologne, in the other. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I, who might always be said--to--to--to harness myself to a watering-cart full of money, and go about saturating Society every day of my life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The control is inescapable; it saturates disposition. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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