吸取
xī qǔ
Pinyin
Definition
吸取
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- to absorb
- to draw (a lesson, insight etc)
- to assimilate
Character Decomposition
Idioms (16)
以貌取人
- 1 to judge sb by appearances (idiom)
取长补短
- 1 lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius)
- 2 to use this in place of that
- 3 what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts
各取所需
- 1 each takes what he needs (idiom)
咎由自取
- 1 to have only oneself to blame (idiom)
- 2 to bring trouble through one's own actions
囊中取物
- 1 as easy as reaching for it from a bag (idiom)
- 2 in the bag
- 3 (as good as) in one's possession
Sample Sentences
哎,我们就是这样,往往要等到出了事才去关注。就拿环境污染来说,因为盲目发展经济而造成的环境污染,是十年二十年都恢复不了的。多少活生生的例子摆在眼前,就是不能吸取教训。
Ugh, that's just the way we are. We always wait until something happens before we start paying any attention. Take pollution for example. Because of reckless economic expansion we've caused pollution that we won't be able to recover from in even 10 or 20 years. There are tons of real life examples right in front of our eyes, but we still don't learn from them.
你知道吗?美国麻省理工大学的斯隆管理学院支持中国开办的国际MBA项目,首批合作的大学就只有清华大学和复旦大学。他们都是以全英文授课,模块式教学,吸取了国外MBA教学的精华,办学质量应该还是信得过的。著名的国际咨询公司麦肯锡的员工也大多是从各所名校毕业的MBA人才,所以说MBA就好像是进入企业管理高层的护照也不为过。
You know what? The Sloan School of Management at MIT in America has given China support in opening International MBA Programs. The first batch of partner universities only includes Qinghua University and Fudan. They are all taught completely in English, with modular teaching methods. They've attracted the cream of overseas MBA education. The quality of education should be pretty good. Most employees of McKinsey, the famous international consulting firm, are MBA graduates from top universities. So it's not far off the mark to say that the MBA is a passport to the high levels of corporate management.