Sometimes they are used to absorb waste in chicken houses.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

We start at this lower energy state and go up that means we need to absorb a photon, we have to take in energy.

我们从一个低能级开始，到一个高能级去,这意味着需要吸收一个光子，我们要获得能量。

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But nonetheless, we have been able to absorb all of that.

但无论如何,我们还是能够学得会

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"Frankly I believe that the president deserves the right to absorb the assessment himself and have his questions and my questions and others' questions relating to the assessment answered,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

So this is our grade game, and what I'm going to do, since it's kind of hard to absorb all the information just by reading a paragraph of text, I'm going to make a table to record the information.

就是我们的成绩博弈,因为这么长一段文字,从中摘取信息有点困难,不如我们列表整理信息

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That step,he said, shows it is designed to absorb those areas into Russia, both de facto and de jure, which is why Russia started the war (in August), Utiashvili said.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Absorption is just the opposite of emission, so instead of starting at a high energy level and dropping down, when we absorb light we start low and we absorb energy to bring ourselves up to an n final that's higher.

吸收就是发射的逆过程,与从一个高能量到低能量不同，当吸收光时，我们从低能量开始,吸收能量到一个更高的能量。

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"If all the investment now will be done in the city where there are huge needs to reconstruct all the infrastructure, where there will be a lot of demand in terms of construction work, then you will have again a pull effect from the rural areas back into a city that is not ready to absorb a lot more people than they have today."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The method can quickly judge the soil's ability to hold water and absorb nutrients.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

It's the vitamin associated with the sun that we absorb through our skin, and increasingly block out when we use sunblock, to avoid getting skin cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

West Africa's mangrove forests absorb thousands of tons of carbon dioxide, and could be a way for the region to get a foothold in the $136-billion carbon world market.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Grybauskaite has said she wants to help formulate a policy that will stabilise public finances, stimulate exports, absorb EU aid faster and provide tax breaks for small and medium-sized businesses.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

AIG CEO Liddy's testimony Wednesday to the House committee comes as lawmakers absorb details of the company pay outs, including a report from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that 73 AIG employees received bonus checks of $1 million or more.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17