注釋：absorb vt. 吸收；吸引；承受；理解；使…全神貫注
absorb in 集中精力做某事；全神貫注于
vt.
1. 吸收(液體、氣體等)：
A sponge absorbs water.
海綿吸水。

2. 吸引…的注意；使全神貫注，使專心致志，占去(注意力、精力、興趣、時間等)：
He was so absorbed in a book that he did not hear the bell.
他如此專心致志地讀書以致沒聽見鈴響。

3. 理解；掌握：
Can your brain absorb all this information?
你的腦袋能吸收這全部信息嗎?

4. 吸收(食物、思想、文化等)；同化(民族、語言或成分等)，把…并入，使合并：

The empire absorbed many small nations.
該帝國吞并了許多小國。

5. 承受，忍受；經受：
to absorb the changes
經受住變革

6. 負擔，承擔(費用、經費)：
The company will absorb all the research costs.
這家公司將承擔全部研究經費。

7. 消減(振動)，緩沖(震動、顛簸等)：
Cork ceilings absorb sound.
軟木制的天花板能減少回音。

8. 吸收(光、熱、聲音等)：
Light rays are absorbed by black surfaces.
光線被黑色表面吸收(而無反射)。

9. (大量)收買，買進，收購進；(市場)吸納，接受(商品等)：
The market absorbed all the computers we could build.
市場吸納了我們所能生產的全部電腦。

accustom adj. 習慣的；通常的；獨有的
v. 使習慣于（accustom的過去分詞）
詞組：
become accustomed to 習慣于；對…變得習以為常
get accustomed to 變得習慣于，習慣于
became accustomed to sth 對…變得習慣起來
例句：
(1) He is accustomed to hard work.
他習慣于做艱苦的工作。
(2) Are you accustomed to life here?
你習慣這里的生活？
(3) Become accustomed to a person's life.
漸漸習慣一個人的生活了。
(4) People became accustomed to my silence.
人們習慣了我的沉默。
(5) He took his accustomed seat by the fire.
他坐在火爐邊他常坐的位置上。
(6) You will soon get accustomed to the job.
你將會很快習慣這個工作的。
(7) I'm not quite accustomed to dry weather.
我對干燥的天氣十分不習慣。
(8) The child was accustomed to having her way.
這不是我所習慣的那種待遇。
(9) GERMANY is accustomed to hung parliaments .
在德國，無多數議會的出現是習以為常。
(10) Her eyes quickly became accustomed to the dark.
她的眼睛很快適應了黑暗。