assimilate

verb

1. become similar to one's environment

e.g. Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly

2. make similar

e.g. This country assimilates immigrants very quickly

3. become similar in sound

e.g. The nasal assimilates to the following consonant

4. take up mentally

e.g. he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe

Synonym: absorbingesttake in

5. take (gas, light or heat) into a solution

Synonym: imbibe

1. （使）同化；（使）融入
When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.

e.g. There is every sign that new Asian-Americans are just as willing to assimilate...
种种迹象表明新一代亚裔美国人也愿意入乡随俗。
e.g. His family tried to assimilate into the white and Hispanic communities...
他一家人试图融入白人和西班牙裔社区。

2. 吸收；接受；学习
If you assimilate new ideas, techniques, or information, you learn them or adopt them.

e.g. I was speechless, still trying to assimilate the enormity of what he'd told me.
我无话可说，一时还无法接受他对我所说之事的严重性。

1. assimilate什么意思

1. 同化：这个时候,同化(assimilate)的整合方案无疑比分立更合适. 尽管收购公司应该友好接管,但没必要努力保持目标公司的文化. 事实上,那些东西极有可能造成了目标公司表现欠佳进而成为收购目标. 收购者也没必要为目标公司管理层出走而苦恼,

2. 吸收：如果一个企业能够彻底的分析这样一个最佳作业方式所提供的资讯,并且经过内化(internalization)吸收(assimilate),成功的转换应用到自己的组织内,发展出一套独特的作法与技术(know-how),就可以塑造出本身的核心能力,为企业创造竞争性优势.

3. 同化物：光合产物(photosynthetic yield)是最主要的同化物(assimilate). 同化物的运输与分配过程,直接关系到作物产量的高低和品质的好坏. 作物的经济产量不仅取决于同化物的多少,而且还取决于同化物向经济器官运输与分配的量

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4. 同化,使类似,吸收：assert 断言 | assimilate 同化,使类似,吸收 | associate 结交,联合