Engross

(v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

(v. t.) To amass.

(v. t.) To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment.

(v. t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.

(v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power.

贝妮塔整理

• Dr. Franklin did not suffer his political pursuits to engross his whole attention. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I did all last week! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She had not thought of her own situation at all: she was simply engrossed in trying to put a little order in theirs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She was too self-engrossed to penetrate the recesses of his shyness, and besides, why should she care to give herself the trouble? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• My time is engrossed, unhappily, with other concerns. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Fanny's thoughts were now all engrossed by the two who had left her so long ago, and getting quite impatient, she resolved to go in search of them. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• He describes the boy of sixteen as engrossed intensely in his experiments and scientific reading, and somewhat indifferent, for this reason, to his duties as operator. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• We had been so engrossed in exploration of the building and in our conversation that it was late in the afternoon before we realized it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Soon after this discovery, he became more thoughtful than usual for several days, and seemed much engrossed by one subject. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The popular fear of engrossing and forestalling may be compared to the popular terrors and suspicions of witchcraft. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Oh, it was most engrossing! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• We are no longer lovers; nor can I call myself a friend to any; since, lost as I am, I have no thought to spare from my own wretched, engrossing self. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She had been engrossing Sir James. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The work was all-engrossing; it occupied every spare moment of his time and thought. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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