digest
verb uk/daɪˈdʒest/ us/daɪˈdʒest/
(EAT)
C1 [ I or T ]（使）消化
to change food in your stomach into substances that your body can use
I find that I don't digest meat easily. 我发现自己不容易消化肉食。
Sit still and allow your meal to digest. 静静地坐着，让胃里的食物消化消化。
- More examples
- The adult owls feed their young with food which they've already partly digested.
- Don't rush off - let's just sit here a while and digest our food.
- How can you expect to digest your food properly when you eat your meals so fast?
- The snake lay absolutely motionless for hours as it digested its meal.
- Meat-eaters must produce extensive bile acids in their intestines to properly digest the meat that they eat.
(UNDERSTAND)
C1 [ T ]理解，吸收（信息）
to read or hear new information and take the necessary time to understand it
This chapter is so difficult to digest, I'll have to read it again later. 这一章不容易理解消化，稍后我还得再看一遍。
digest
noun [ C ] uk/ˈdaɪ.dʒest/ us/ˈdaɪ.dʒest/
文摘，摘要;文汇，简报
a short written report providing the most important parts of a larger piece of writing, or one containing recent news
A digest of the research findings is now available. 研究成果的简报已经出来了。
The company publishes a monthly digest of its activities. 该公司每月出一份活动简报。