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engrossvt. 1. accumulate,amass,collect,get together积聚,积累,收集。 △2H.IV.4.5.69(70):“For this they have en-grossed and pilled up / The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;”为了这个,他们聚敛和掠夺了用不正当手段得来的大堆肮脏金钱。 engross up: buy up wholesale,amass in gross大批收买,大量积累。 △1H.IV.3.2.148:“To engross up glori-ous deeds on my behalf;”为了我把大量光辉业绩积累起来。2. seize in the gross,take the whole of,monopolize整批地抓住,抓住全部,独占。 △Wiv.2.2.207 (196): “en-grossed opportunities to meet her;”抓住一切能和她见面的机会。 3. make fat,fatten,pamper使肥胖,养肥,娇养。 △R.III.3.7.75 (76):“Not sleeping,to engross his idle body,”他不是在睡懒觉,养膘发福。 4. write in the large formal hand appropriate to legaldocuments (按照公文标准)用端正的大字体抄写。 △R.III.36.1:“Here is the indictment of the good LordHastings,/ Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed,”这是对于好大人海斯丁斯的起诉书,按照公文书法格式用端正的字体抄写得清清楚楚。 engross[inˈgrəus]v. 用大字体抄写,大量收购,全神贯注,吸引,独占,占用 ◇ be engrossed in 全神贯注于…,埋头于 ‖ engrossing adj. 引人入胜的 engrossment n. |