assimilation
n. 吸收,接受; 同化
When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
There is every sign that new Asian-Americans are just as willing to assimilate...
种种迹象表明新一代亚裔美国人也愿意入乡随俗。
His family tried to assimilate into the white and Hispanic communities...
他一家人试图融入白人和西班牙裔社区。
If you assimilate new ideas, techniques, or information, you learn them or adopt them.
I was speechless, still trying to assimilate the enormity of what he'd told me.
我无话可说,一时还无法接受他对我所说之事的严重性。
1. the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
2. the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
3. the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
4. a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
5. the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
6. in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
Piaget thinks the development of cognition involves four aspects, such as schema, assimilation, readjustment and equilibration.
皮亚杰认为发生认识的发展涉及图式 、 同化 、 顺应和平衡四个方面.
Leining dialect that is constantly absorbing the assimilation development of the different characteristics of the language.
方言即是在累年的不断吸收同化发展起来的各具特色的语言现象.
In the biology class, the teacher explained to us the principle of assimilation.
生物课上, 老师给我们讲解了同化作用的原理.
The assimilation of people in USA is common.
在美国,人的同化很普遍.
The development of national culture goes side by side with the assimilation of foreign culture.
民族文化的发展历程伴随与异文化的融汇过程.