| 词组 | saturate |
| 释义 | saturate When saturate is followed by a preposition, the usual choice is with: • ... Soviet trading missions abroad were so saturated with intelligence agents ... —Hedrick Smith, Atlantic, December 1974 • ... have an easy time saturating the marketplace with their potboilers —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 24 June 1978 • ... his books ... are saturated with politics —Irving Howe, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 24 Oct. 1982 Other prepositions that occasionally occur after saturate are by and in: • ... saturated by prejudice and emotion —William J. Reilly, Life Planning for College Students, 1954 • ... children are so saturated by television —Michèle Murray, Children's House, Summer 1970 • A moment ago, he was saturated in sunniness —Liz Smith, Cosmopolitan, May 1975 • ... are they not ... saturated in Christian cosmology? —John Updike, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 23 May 1976 When the object of saturate is a reflexive pronoun, the preposition that follows is in: • ... saturated himself in literature about, and photographs of, Nijinsky —Walter Terry, Saturday Rev., 13 Nov. 1976 • ... will allow athletic types to saturate themselves in basketball, volleyball, and skating —Richard F. Shep-ard, N.Y. Times, 10 Dec. 1976 |
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