marinate

中文： 腌泡、腌

1. To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking. (transitive) · You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.· After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.
2. To allow a substance to be absorbed into the hair or scalp.
3. Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
4. Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time. (intransitive)
5. Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it. (figuratively, informal) · It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!

He/she/it marinates · 过去式 marinated · 过去分词 marinated · -ing形式 marinating