HBDFto take food or other substances into your body 摄入〔食物等〕 → digest
—ingestion /ɪnˈdʒestʃən/ noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
ingest• Rather surprisingly, the time spent boring and ingesting a meal does not vary very much for whelks of different sizes.• It s basically sterilizedsand, Thompson says, although ingesting any non-food substance is never recommended.• Infective larvae which have developed from eggsdeposited by ewes in the spring are ingested by ewes and lambs in early summer.• There was an initialsuspicion that this poison had been ingested by our two patients.• And within the droppings are the spores of the fungus, ingested during truffle-eating time.• It is known to develop in individuals with peptic disease who ingest large amounts of calcium-carbonate-based antacids.• It ingests the compound from the vent water, snaps its chemicalbonds and survives on the energyreleased.• In this way only those predators that attack live animals are affected when they ingest the substance contained in the neckdevice.
Originingest
(1600-1700)Latin past participle of ingerere, from gerere“to carry”