absorptive power

基本解释

A city's essence is its magnetic absorptive power, which leads its limitless extension, so a city is also a big container of human's increasing desires and profits.
城市的本質特點在於它磁場般的吸附力，由於磁場的強大力量導致了城市無限蔓延，實際上城市也是人的欲望和利益無節制泛濫的大容器。
Even Chinese kids, whose minds are at their peak absorptive power, have more trouble with Chinese characters than their little counterparts in other countries have with their respective scripts.
在中國，就算是吸收能力処於頂峰的小孩子，他們學起漢字來也比其他國家小孩學習其他文字更費勁。

The absorptive power of local democracy is great, but it is not infinite.
ECONOMIST: Muslims and city politics