drench

英 [dren(t)ʃ] 美 [drɛntʃ]

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※ 提供单词"drench"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

drench 使湿透

词源同drink, 喝，饮。引申义湿透。

drench: drench: [OE] Originally, drench meant simply ‘cause to drink’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic verb *drangkjan, which was a causative variant of *drengkan (source of English drink) – that is to say, it denoted ‘causing someone to do the action of the verb drink’. That particular sense now survives only as a technical usage in veterinary medicine, but already by the Middle English period it had moved on metaphorically to ‘drown’ (now obsolete, and succeeded by the related drown) and ‘soak thoroughly’.
=> drink, drown
drench (v.): c. 1200, "to submerge, drown," from Old English drencan "give drink to, ply with drink, make drunk; soak, saturate; submerge, drown," causative of drincan "to drink" (see drink), from Proto-Germanic *drankijan (cognates: Old Norse drekkja, Swedish dränka, Dutch drenken, German tränken, Gothic dragkjan "to give to drink"). Sense of "to wet thoroughly by throwing liquid over" is from c. 1550. Related: Drenched; drenching.

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3. Drench daily with positive thinking, and keep saturated just right.: 天天浇灌以“积极”的思想, 并始终保持湿润.

5. Drench the soil and base of the plant with a systemic fungicide.: 用系统杀真菌剂湿透土壤和植物基部.