digest

英 [da?'d?est; d?-] 美[da?'d??st]

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復數:?digests;第三人稱單數:?digests;過去式:?digested;過去分詞:?digested;現在分詞:?digesting;

1、di- / dis- "apart" + gest- "carry".

digest 消化，文摘

dis-, 分開，散開。-gest,攜帶，含有，詞源同ingest, gesture. 即帶向不同方向，用于指消化，后也用于指文摘。

digest: digest: [15] English took the verb digest from dīgest-, the past participle of Latin dīgerere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dī- ‘apart’ and gerere ‘carry’, and originally meant ‘divide, distribute’ – a sense which developed via ‘dissolve’ into the specifically physiological ‘dissolve and obtain nutrients from food in the body’.

A further semantic offshoot of ‘distribute’ was ‘orderly arrangement’, and in fact the earliest use of the word in English was as the noun digest ‘summary of information’ [14], from Latin dīgesta, the neuter plural of the past participle, literally ‘things arranged’.
=> congest, gesture, ingest
digest (n.): "collection of writing," late 14c., from Latin digesta, from neuter plural of digestus, literally "digested thing," noun use of past participle of digerere "to separate, divide, arrange," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + gerere "to carry" (see gest).
digest (v.): "assimilate food in bowels," late 14c., from Latin digestus (see digest (n.)). Related: Digested; digesting.

1. The organization publishes a regular digest of environmental statistics.: 該組織定期出版一份環境統計數據摘要。

2. All this has upset me. I need time to digest it all.: 所以這些都讓我心煩。我需要時間來慢慢接受這一切。