digest

vt. 消化；吸收；融会贯通

vi. 消化

n. 文摘；摘要

中文词源

digest 消化，文摘

dis-, 分开，散开。-gest,携带，含有，词源同ingest, gesture. 即带向不同方向，用于指消化，后也用于指文摘。

digest: digest: [15] English took the verb digest from dīgest-, the past participle of Latin dīgerere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dī- ‘apart’ and gerere ‘carry’, and originally meant ‘divide, distribute’ – a sense which developed via ‘dissolve’ into the specifically physiological ‘dissolve and obtain nutrients from food in the body’.

A further semantic offshoot of ‘distribute’ was ‘orderly arrangement’, and in fact the earliest use of the word in English was as the noun digest ‘summary of information’ [14], from Latin dīgesta, the neuter plural of the past participle, literally ‘things arranged’.
=> congest, gesture, ingest
digest (n.): "collection of writing," late 14c., from Latin digesta, from neuter plural of digestus, literally "digested thing," noun use of past participle of digerere "to separate, divide, arrange," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + gerere "to carry" (see gest).
digest (v.): "assimilate food in bowels," late 14c., from Latin digestus (see digest (n.)). Related: Digested; digesting.

1、di- / dis- "apart" + gest- "carry".

1. The organization publishes a regular digest of environmental statistics.: 该组织定期出版一份环境统计数据摘要。

2. All this has upset me. I need time to digest it all.: 所以这些都让我心烦。我需要时间来慢慢接受这一切。