engross

英 [ɪn'grəʊs; en-] 美 [ɪn'ɡros]

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※ 提供单词"engross"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。

engross 使全神贯注

en-, 进入，使。gross, 总的，全部的。

engross: engross: see gross
engross (v.): c. 1400, "to buy up the whole stock of" (in Anglo-French from c. 1300), from Old French en gros "in bulk, in a large quantity, at wholesale," as opposed to en detail. See gross.

Figurative sense of "absorb the whole attention" is first attested 1709. A parallel engross, meaning "to write (something) in large letters," is from Anglo-French engrosser, from Old French en gros "in large (letters)." Related: Engrossed; engrossing.

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2. Gentlemen pay her attention , and engross her all to themselves.: 先生们对她百般奉承,把她弄得神魂颠倒.

3. I'd go into bookshops and engross myself in diet books - and cookbooks.: 我走进书店,聚精会神地读关于饮食的书 -- 以及食谱.

4. But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.: 她虽然难免想到自己, 却并不是完全只想到自己.

5. But Perdita seemed to engross all Leontes'attention.: 可是里昂提斯的全部注意力好像都贯注在潘狄塔身上.