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To make a liquid weaker or thinner by adding water or another liquid to it, like adding water to juice so it's not so strong. People also use it about ideas: 'to dilute a message' means to make it weaker or less clear, often by adding too many other things into it.
稀釋 (加水變淡)；(比喻)使變弱、沖淡
組成di- (apart, away) + lute (from Latin, related to washing or loosening) — the old idea is spreading something out so it becomes thinner or weaker.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
diluteverb/daɪˈljuːt/
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To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
- Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
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To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
- For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.
- “Stay a little.” “Not another second: language and discussion dilute thought; I will say no more.”
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businessfinancestock-marketTo cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
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To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
- It dilutes easily.
diluteadj/daɪˈljuːt/
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Having a low concentration.
- Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.
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Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
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Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
- a dilute calico
- a cat with a dilute tortoiseshell coat
dilutenoun/daɪˈljuːt/
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An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
- On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。