| 释义 |
osmosis|ɒsˈməʊsɪs, ɒz-|
[Latinized form of osmose, after endosmosis and exosmosis, conformed to ns. in -osis in Eng. use.]
1. = osmose. (This, rather than osmose, is now the usual term.)
1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. iii. 206 The great desideratum of a transparent injecting fluid is, that it shall not by the action of osmosis, dye the tissue meant to be injected. 1876Foster Phys. i. iv. (1879) 122 Permeable..in the sense of allowing fluids to pass through them by osmosis.
2. fig. Any process by which something is acquired by absorption.
1900Nation (N.Y.) 18 Oct. 303/3 The subtile interchange—a sort of moral osmosis—which goes on between the higher conquering race and the lower conquered race. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos xxix. 137 Languor has cried unto languor about the marshmallow-roast (Let us speak of the osmosis of persons). 1968Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 1079/1 A director born (like Godard) in 1930 is in a position to know, by a sort of unconscious osmosis, more than a director born in 1898 (like René Clair) can hope to learn, however conscientiously he may try. 1970Author LXXXI. 113 It is not a question how much you teach them but how much they learn, perhaps largely by osmosis. 1977P. D. James Death of Expert Witness iii. 128 News percolated through a village community by a process of verbal osmosis. |