engross
engross 英 [ɪnˈgrəʊs] 美 [ɪnˈgroʊs]
vt. 使全神贯注；用大字体书写；正式写成（决议等）；独占；吸引
进行时:engrossing 过去式:engrossed 过去分词:engrossed 第三人称单数:engrosses 名词复数:engrosses
- Engross is a verb that means to consume all of your attention or time. Once you engross yourself in the culture of high salaries and unlimited spending accounts, it's hard to go back to cooking at a sandwich shop.
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- vt. 使全神贯注；用大字体书写；正式写成（决议等）；独占；吸引
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1. If there was one piece of advice I would offer to improve your reading rate it would be simply to engross yourself in the material you are studying.
下面有一个忠告，肯定可以提高你的阅读速度。
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2. "Bosses shouldn't care about how employees accomplish their objectives or if they want to engross themselves in MP3 players -- as long as the job gets done," he added.
只要员工们完成任务，老板们不必在意他们是如何完成的，也不用在意他们上班时是否听了MP3。
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3. How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I did all last week!
那你上星期让我把她的马整整占用了一个星期，这有多么可恶呀！
- engross (v.) c. 1400, "to buy up the whole stock of" (in Anglo-French from c. 1300), from Old French en gros "in bulk, in a large quantity, at wholesale," as opposed to en detail. See gross.
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