Swallowed up 吞並
A woman poses for a photograph with a painting during an exhibition in Taipei. Photo by Shengfa Lin.
今日短語
To be swallowed up 意思是吞並，統戰的意思。在商業中意思是接管。
例句
今日小常識
This photo shows a painting from the Takao Trick Art Museum of Japan. The history of trick art is about 2,000 years old. It had become an established art form by the time of the Renaissance era. The theme of the concept at the Takao Trick Art Museum is essentially the same as the illusionism of that era; that is creating the optical illusion that depicts objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings.
這張采自日本高尾山幻視藝術美術館的一張照片。幻視藝術已經有2000年歷史了到文藝復興時期幻視藝術已經發展為一門成熟的藝術。高尾山幻視藝術美術館所表現的主題基本上就是文藝復興時代的幻覺意識，以視覺上影像來取代二維空間的繪畫作品。
London has grown so much that is has swallowed up all the outlying villages.
Food and heating swallows up much of our household income.
The company was swallowed up in a corporate merger.
請注意
另一個短語 to swallow it – 意思是忍氣吞聲地接受什麼東西。
Customers will just have to swallow the price rises.
You've got no choice about the decision so just swallow it and move on.
We've lost the deposit on the holiday, we will have just have to swallow it.
