1. | [u] 吸收;接受the act of assimilating sb or sth, or being assimilated |
the rapid assimilation of new ideas 对新思想的迅速吸收 | |
his assimilation into the community 他融入社区 |
2. | [u][c] 同化(使相邻的两个音发音接近,如 football 中 /t/ 同化为 /p/);同化现象the act of making two sounds in speech that are next to each other more similar to each other in certain ways, for example the pronunciation of the in as a <eph>p</eph> ; an example of this |