• vt. 浸透，使濕透；使飽和，使充滿
• adj. 浸透的，飽和的；深顏色的

來自拉丁語 saturare,裝滿，浸透，來自 satur,滿的，來自 PIE*sa,使充滿，詞源同 satiate,satisfy. 引申詞義使飽和。

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鹵汁里.

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

我們將使加利福尼亞州的犯罪案件增長率達到飽和點.

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

吸取過量用水浸透使濕潤或不能用.

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

在種植球莖于苔蘚中之前,先用水浸透苔蘚.

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

因此在花期, 果園最好是蜜蜂滿園.

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