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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

引人入胜的

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yǐn rén rù shèng de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Absorbing/əbˈzɔːr.bɪŋ/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这是一本引人入胜的小说。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Extremely interesting and engaging, to the exclusion of all other thoughts or activities.

    "She found the historical biography so absorbing that she read it from cover to cover in one sitting."
  2. 2

    Fully occupying one's time, energy, or attention.

    "His new research project became an absorbing passion that consumed all his weekends."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'absorbere', combining 'ab-' (away, from) and 'sorbere' (to suck in), entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century. Over time, the literal physical sense of swallowing or soaking up liquid evolved metaphorically into capturing and holding one's complete mental attention and interest.

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