| 单词 | infuse |
| 释义 | in·fuse transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < attributes the fine spirit of the whole project to the self-respect with which men had been infused — Dixon Wecter > b. < infuse an idea > < infuse a belief > < infused an aviation curriculum into some forty university departments — Phil Gustafson > 3. < brought together the main ideas … and infused them with the conception that the universe was the product of a historical development — S.F.Mason > < infused only with her passion for her child — Ethel Wilson > 4. < infuse tea leaves > intransitive verb < letting the tea stand a few minutes to infuse — Flora Thompson > Synonyms: < infusing life into an inanimate body — Mary W. Shelley > < the extraordinary force which Lawrence's imagination infused into his prose — Times Literary Supplement > < whose work is for the most part infused with the spirit of scientific materialism — L.A.White > < it infused into them the feeling that they were not at the mercy of blind economic forces — A.R.Williams > suffuse implies the spreading over or through one thing of a second that gives the first thing an unusual color, aspect, texture, or quality < I felt a large, healthy blush suffuse my features — L.P.Smith > < the western sky was suffused with the transparent yellow-green of August evenings — Ellen Glasgow > < an exalted feeling of martyrdom well earned suffused the exiles — E.J.Simmons > < the novel was suffused with a feeling for water and air, with sunlight hot and shifting — Leo Gurko > imbue implies the introduction into a person or thing of something that completely permeates < imbued so strongly with a sense of duty and obedience — Hanama Tasaki > < imbued with a dynamic faith — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < imbue the army with a national spirit — Hajo Holborn > < the mind becomes imbued with the scientific method — J.B.Conant > ingrain implies a pervading of something with an irremovable dye or something suggesting such a dye < morality ingrained in the national character — J.A.Froude > < the principle of serfdom was ingrained in medieval society — G.G.Coulton > < her instinctive humility and good manners were too deeply ingrained — Helen Howe > < this idea of equality was ingrained in the New York cabdriver — D.F.Karaka > inoculate, in this extended sense, implies an imbuing of a person with something resembling a disease germ, often suggesting a surreptitious means < those who believe that the great mass of the people are unreasoning beasts that must be controlled by inoculating them with myths or fictions — M.R.Cohen > < the democratic leveling had helped to inoculate the public with the idea of free schools disassociated from charity — American Guide Series: Virginia > < third-rate southerners inoculated with all the worst traits of the Yankee sharper — H.L.Mencken > leaven implies a transforming of something by introducing into it something else which enlivens, elevates, tempers, or markedly alters the total quality, usually for the better < leaven the dense mass of facts and events with the elastic force of reason — J.H.Newman > < there was need of idealism to leaven the materialistic realism of the times — V.L.Parrington > < knowledge … must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom — A.E.Stevenson b. 1900 > |
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