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发音：[əˈsɪmɪˌleɪt]
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例句：
- To assimilate is to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group.
- If someone moves to another country, he or she will need to assimilate by adapting to and taking in the language, culture and customs of the new place.
- His government has set a goal of attracting 400,000 qualified workers annually for the country, which has Europe’s biggest economy, and easing access to language and other courses to help assimilate migrants.
- The U.S. government terminated the tribe in the 1960s and took its remaining land as part of a policy that sought to abolish reservations and assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American society.
- The party leader has intensified efforts to settle ethnic tensions by encouraging the region’s residents to assimilate into Chinese society and making Mandarin Chinese the dominant language in public life.
- A less-experienced employee with a strong attitude and desire to share in a company’s success will be much more beneficial than a stubborn, experienced employee who refuses to assimilate into a positive office culture.
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解释：
- Assimilate这个单词为动词，其表示“to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group, or to absorb into the system”这一含义，即“使同化，吸收/接受，融入，透彻理解，消化”，与integrate/incorporate/absorb/comprehend这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下:
- Immigrants were encouraged to acculturate as quickly as they could—meaning that they must learn a new language, giving up traditions, customs, heritage, etc., in order to blend and assimilate into the general population.（移民被鼓励尽快适应 – 这意味着他们必须学习一门新语言，放弃传统，习俗，遗产等，以便融入和同化为普通人口。）
–Culture - If you grow up somewhere or work at a particular institution for any length of time, you assimilate and take on the values and opinions of the people around you.（如果你在某个地方长大或在某个特定的机构工作了很长时间，你就会吸收并接受周围人的价值观和意见。）
–Culture - Unlike the hyperconnected perceptual regions of the human brain, the system learns and processes properties like shape, size and color separately and then assimilates the data into a cohesive “view” of a space.（与人脑的超连接感知区域不同，该系统分别学习和处理形状、大小和颜色等属性，然后将数据吸收成一个整体的空间“视图”。）
–Science - Their stories were told again and again in an attempt to assimilate the tragedy, to comprehend the incomprehensible.（他们的故事被一遍又一遍地讲述，试图理解悲剧，理解难以理解的事情。）
–Arts - The 21 percent of students whose parents are immigrants will have less of a chance to assimilate.（父母是移民的21%的学生将有较少同化或融入的机会。）
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