ingest

Compared meaning: take in a liquid, gas, or food (verb).

比较义项：吸收，摄入（液体、气体或食物等物质进入体内或物体内部）（动词）。

• absorb

  Describes a surface or material soaking up liquid or gas passively, without an act of eating; common subjects are soil, skin, or the body absorbing nutrients.

  指物体表面或身体被动地吸入液体或气体，并非“吃”的动作；常见主语是土壤、皮肤，或身体吸收养分。

  Dry soil quickly absorbs water after a heavy summer rain.

  干燥的土壤在夏季一场大雨后会迅速吸收水分。

• ingest 本词

  A more formal or clinical word for taking something into the body through the mouth, often used for food, drink, or harmful substances swallowed accidentally.

  一个更正式或医学化的词，指经口把东西摄入体内，常用于食物、饮料，或不小心吞下的有害物质。

  Some fish can accidentally ingest tiny pieces of floating plastic.

  有些鱼可能会不小心摄入漂浮的微小塑料碎片。

Both mean taking a substance into the body. Absorb means a surface or body soaks up liquid or gas, like soil absorbing water. Ingest is formal, meaning to take something in through the mouth, often food or drink. Excludes absorb meaning 'to hold full attention'.

两者都指“把某种物质摄入体内或物体内部”，但方式不同：absorb 强调物体或身体通过表面自然、被动地吸收液体或气体，如土壤吸水、身体吸收营养；ingest 强调主动经口摄入食物、饮料或异物，医学和科学语境中常见。这里不比较 absorb 的“使全神贯注”这一义项。