• vt. 浸透，使湿透；使饱和，使充满
• adj. 浸透的，饱和的；深颜色的

来自拉丁语 saturare,装满，浸透，来自 satur,满的，来自 PIE*sa,使充满，词源同 satiate,satisfy. 引申词义使饱和。

saturate

saturate: [16] Latin satur meant ‘full’, and in particular ‘full of food, full up’ (it was a relative of satis ‘enough’, source of English satiate and satisfy). From it was formed a verb saturāre ‘fill, glut, surfeit’, whose past participle has given English saturate. At first this was used as a synonym of satisfy or satiate (‘so to saturate their insatiable hunger’, Thomas Bell, Survey of Popery 1596), and the modern sense ‘soak’ did not emerge fully until the mid 18th century.
=> sad, sated, satisfy

saturate (v.)

1530s, "to satisfy, satiate," from Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare "to fill full, sate, drench," from satur "sated, full," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (see sad). Meaning "soak thoroughly" first recorded 1756. Marketing sense first recorded 1958. Related: Saturated; saturating.

1. Saturate the meat in the mixture of oil and herbs.

把肉浸泡在油和作料的卤汁里.

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2. We'll saturate California with the rise in its crime rate.

我们将使加利福尼亚州的犯罪案件增长率达到饱和点.

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3. To saturate with water and make soggy or unusable.

吸取过量用水浸透使湿润或不能用.

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4. Saturate the moss with water before planting the bulbs in it.

在种植球茎于苔藓中之前,先用水浸透苔藓.

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5. Thus, growers should saturate the planting with bees at bloom time.

因此在花期, 果园最好是蜜蜂满园.

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