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.
城市的本质特点在于它磁场般的吸附力，由于磁场的强大力量导致了城市无限蔓延，实际上城市也是人的欲望和利益无节制泛滥的大容器。
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.
在中国，就算是吸收能力处于顶峰的小孩子，他们学起汉字来也比其他国家小孩学习其他文字更费劲。

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