1Cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with liquid so that no more can be absorbed.

泥土吸饱了水。

1. 1.1 Cause (a substance) to combine with, dissolve, or hold the greatest possible quantity of another substance.
   使大量吸收，使饱和
   the groundwater is saturated with calcium hydroxide

   地表水充满氢氧化钙。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The liqueur is saturated with sugar, so I expected the viscosity to be high, but it also contains 43% alcohol.
   • And because the pleats have more area it takes three times longer for the filter to become saturated with dust and dirt.
   • The drug is most commonly taken by mouth, and only rarely injected, but occasionally tobacco is saturated with LSD and then smoked.
   • After 5 days of eating broccoli or oil fortified with vitamin K, says Booth, more osteocalcin was saturated with carboxyl groups.
   • If the surface film of water is saturated with oxygen there will be no further diffusion until oxygen diffuses from the surface film into the overall body of water.
   • Although the core materials are saturated in resins, the planks can still swell from excessive amounts of moisture.
   • To be fully active, osteocalcin must be saturated with carboxyl groups, and that's vitamin K's job.
   • Eventually, the surface of the activated charcoal will be saturated with absorbed pollutants and no further purification will occur.
   • In the Pacific Northwest, for example, apple growers adorn their trees with dispensers that saturate the air with the chemical sex attractant, or pheromone, of female codling moths.
   • When the resin becomes saturated with calcium and magnesium, it must be recharged.
   • You also should know that charcoal filters may become saturated with the chemical impurities they remove, and, for that reason, they have a limited lifetime.
   • Polyethylene pellets, saturated with melted paraffin, then mixed with wet gypsum and compressed in sheet form, also yield production quality drywall.
   • However, bacterial decomposition had saturated the Vasa's oaken beams with hydrogen sulfide, which eventually created a huge reservoir of sulfur.
   • This water emerges saturated with oxygen that is able to kill germs, build bodily strength and support the immune system.
2. 1.2 Magnetize or charge (a substance or device) fully.
   饱和磁化
3. 1.3Electronics Put (a device) into a state in which no further increase in current is achievable.
   〔电子〕饱和充电
4. 1.4usually be saturated with Fill (something or someone) with something until no more can be held or absorbed.
   〈喻〉充满；使饱享
   they've become thoroughly saturated with powerful and seductive messages from the media

   他们从媒体得到了大量煽情诱人的消息。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Do you then saturate yourself in source materials and then write, or do you have the materials out in front of you when you're writing?
   • The film is shot on grainy stock: some scenes are saturated in white; a few have a cold blue tint; others a homely yellow or brown.
   • These songs are by no means depressing, instead they are sensual and saturated with lush instrumentation and brass percussion.
   • Recently, the popular music sector was saturated with boy bands, girl groups and choreographed vocalists in the wake of the fall of grunge.
   • Today's media is saturated with images of male physiques that cannot be achieved without the help of steroids.
   • Interest in amateur blogs may fade once the medium becomes saturated with professional content.
   • The choice of material is excellent and the performance is saturated with soul.
   • It's everywhere, saturating airwaves and club sound systems at an epidemic rate.
   • As a result, the Arabic food vocabulary is as saturated with Persian words as English is with French.
   • What was once dairy farms and dirt roads is now one of the city's most vibrant and cohesive communities, saturated with stylish shops and bars so popular that patrons spill out onto the street.
   • His books are saturated with mirrors, windows, diaries, memories, travels, dreams, narcissism, and gazing.
   • Although it may seem like we're saturated with credit cards these days, the bank claims we are woefully inadequate with our plastic when compared to the United States.
   • After 45 solid minutes I was totally saturated with information and all sorts of flashing images.
   • The discourse of all major speakers is saturated with religious ideas, sometimes explicitly.
   • The Western world, particularly the U.S., is saturated with information technology.
   • Our culture is saturated with stereotypical expectations for both girls and boys.
   • What's worse, agribusiness is saturating the media with misleading reports of the purported ecological risks of organic and other environmentally sustainable agricultural practices.
   • Gran opens one of the containers and immediately the dog's nostrils are saturated with a powerful chemical smell.
   • The editorial is there to deliver readers to the advertisers and most of it is utterly saturated with the concerns and values of the advertising that surrounds it.
   • If you've seen the commercials, you already know that the film is an aesthetic marvel, saturated with color and light and visual decadence.

   Synonyms

   permeate, impregnate, suffuse, imbue, pervade, steep, charge, infuse, inform, fill, spread throughout
5. 1.5 Supply (a market) beyond the point at which the demand for a product is satisfied.
   充斥（市场），使（市场）供大于求
   Japan's electronics industry began to saturate the world markets

   日本的电子工业开始使世界市场供大于求。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In Europe where the car market was already saturated with global players, the company concentrated on car sales rather than production.
   • He sees expansion beyond Singapore's boundaries as the only way to avoid the slow profit growth that comes to a company that has saturated its home market.
   • With 508 stores in the U.S. and 114 in Canada, the company is perilously close to saturating the market.
   • ‘I'll go into a city in advance and saturate the market,’ he says.
   • After they open there, they will probably have saturated the Boston region.
   • It also illustrates how they successfully penetrated the European car market which was already saturated with a large number of competitors.
   • The comic book itself has changed since the days when the market was saturated with mass-produced comics.
   • Industry observers say the Swiss market is saturated with too many banks chasing too few Swiss francs.
   • Pat was doing all her business in New York City, and it looked as though she might have saturated the market there.
   • For instance, the company built on its early success by saturating a local market with multiple locations.
   • The PC market is saturated with hard disk drives.
   • Once the large industrial distilleries saturated the market with a better product at a lower cost this drove the little distilleries out of business but there were taste preferences persisting in consumers.
   • If that number's shrinking, how can you predict a larger sales number when we saturate most of the market already?
   • The market is soon saturated with imported automobiles, electronic gadgetry, luxurious home appliances and name-brand whisky.
   • Indeed, some analysts give the company only two years at most before it saturates the U.S. market.
   • The market is saturated with this sort of heavy, but melodic guitar-based rock, and there isn't really a wrinkle or gimmick to help attract listeners.
   • It's assumed both stores operate at a loss, staying in business to saturate the market and not give up the edge.
   • You saturate the market, and you have to move to another location and open another store.
   • It's the nature of business to take a profitable idea and exploit it until the market is utterly saturated with similar product and demand dries up as a result.

   Synonyms

   flood, glut, swamp, oversupply, overfill, overload
6. 1.6 Overwhelm (an enemy target area) by concentrated bombing.
   饱和轰炸
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The target area would be saturated, that was certain, but Erik doubted whether it would work or not.
   • The grenades burst out from the warhead at 150m from the target, saturating a large area with deadly explosive power.

A saturated fat.

Saturated with moisture.