英:[səbˈsju:m]
美:[səbˈsum]
英:[səbˈsju:m]
美:[səbˈsum]
sub·sume
sb sum
第三人称单数:subsumes
现在分词:subsuming
过去式:subsumed
过去分词:subsumed
subsumable (adj.)
transitive verb
to classify, consider, or include (an idea, proposition, or the like) in a more comprehensive or general category or principle.In the budget, car expenditures are subsumed under the category of household expenses.
to consider (a case, act, or the like) to be covered by a general rule.
1530年代,源自现代拉丁语 subsumere “取下”,来自拉丁语 sub “下面”(见 sub-)和 sumere “取得,获得,购买”,来自 sus‑ 的变体,即 sub‑ “从下面向上”+ emere “取”(源自 PIE 词根 *em- “取,分配”)。相关词汇: Subsumed; subsuming; subsumption。
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New Latin subsumere, from Latin sub- + sumere to take up — more at consume
The first known use of subsume was in 1818
subterfugenoun
the action of deceiving usually by slyness in order to avoid some unpleasant circumstance (as to escape blame)
a plan or trick that employs sly deception
subsumeverb
to include or place within something larger or more general
red and green are subsumed under the term "color"
1 And later still, decades ahead in the 21st century, the building is subsumed by the rising sea that has overwhelmed, but not snuffed out the capital.
2 Her erstwhile “it girl” status is entirely subsumed to the demands of a collective occasion.
3 Gradually his organic sculptures became subsumed by the mechanical.
4 Mr. Felcone has researched the current state of the streetscapes and seashores depicted; many have been subsumed under parking lots and warehouses.
5 Without any dependable sense of chronology, elements of plot are subsumed beneath the narrator’s diatribes.
6 But a play resembles a hospital in that individual ambition has to be subsumed into a team ethic, and this is essentially a well-drilled ensemble piece.
7 Nowhere in these pages does he express an interest in owning a raptor, or subsuming it, or buying dead chicks for it to eat, or training it to kill.
8 As apologies go, this one is scrumdiddlyumptious — a perfect concoction of corporate ingredients: Dahl’s slurs, only vaguely alluded to, are subsumed within a larger reiteration of how great Dahl’s stories are.
9 While these references can seem too directly proselytising, they are quickly subsumed into the dazzling theatricality of this piece, as Tino uncovers yet another fragment of memory.
10 Economics is tangential to eros and subsumed by ecology:
11 Except that the "Rain Room" is more of a one-sided Hollywood set ideal for picture-making than a full-fledged environmental installation that will subsume you with its awesome water power.
12 In the eyes of the world, pregnancy and motherhood can turn a woman into a mere vessel, subsumed by the sacrifices she makes for her children.
13 And yet its physicality subsumes these ideas: “Little Girl” is overwhelming as an artifact, a bodily presence.
14 In subsuming his father’s voice, Louis eliminates him.
15 They showed the intent seriousness of, say, a tyro equestrian subsumed in the all-encompassing effort of mastery.
16 The broadcasts don’t subsume their distant audiences in the same way; the investment of our attention isn’t as profound.
17 My own story is one of rejecting, or at least subsuming, a limited culinary heritage that I saw, and continue to see, as inferior to those of much of the rest of the world.
18 Instead, as Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project has noted, “all of these phenomenon were subsumed under the heading of ‘crime in the streets.’”
19 The new treaty subsumes all past agreements.
新协议包含了所有过往的契约。
20 “People react to the way Barnes installed his collection in such different ways, some finding it liberating and others saying it subsumes the individual works into these bigger structures,” said the exhibition curator, Martha Lucy.