單詞
melt
英 [melt]
美[m?lt]
基本信息
- vi. 熔化，溶解；漸混
- vt. 使融化；使熔化；使軟化；使感動
- n. 熔化；熔化物
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?melts;過去式:?melted;過去分詞:?melted;現在分詞:?melting;
中文詞源
melt 熔化，融化
來自古英語meltan,液化，熔化，融化，來自PIE*mel,軟的，詞源同mallet,mild.
英文詞源
- melt
- melt: [OE] Melt goes back ultimately to an Indo- European *meld-, *mold-, *mld-, denoting ‘softness’, which also produced English mild and Latin mollis ‘soft’ (source of English mollify and mollusc). Its prehistoric Germanic descendant *melt-, *malt- produced the verb *maltjan ‘dissolve’, which has become English melt. Malt comes from the same Germanic source, and smelt [15], a borrowing from Middle Low German, goes back to *smelt-, a variant of the base *melt-.
=> malt, mild, mollify, mollusc, smelt - melt (v.)
- Old English meltan "become liquid, consume by fire, burn up" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, past participle molten), from Proto-Germanic *meltanan; fused with Old English gem?ltan (Anglian), gemyltan (West Saxon) "make liquid," from Proto-Germanic *gamaltijan (cognates: Old Norse melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meldh-, (cognates: Sanskrit mrduh "soft, mild," Greek meldein "to melt, make liquid," Latin mollis "soft, mild"), from root *mel- "soft," with derivatives referring to soft or softened (especially ground) materials (see mild). Figurative use by c. 1200. Related: Melted; melting.
Of food, to melt in (one's) mouth is from 1690s. Melting pot is from 1540s; figurative use from 1855; popularized with reference to America by play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill (1908). - melt (n.)
- 1854, "molten metal," from melt (v.). In reference to a type of sandwich topped by melted cheese, 1980, American English.
雙語例句
- 1. Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate in a bowl suspended over simmering water.
- 同時，把碗置于微沸的水上，將白巧克力放入碗中使其熔化。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The crowd around the bench began to melt away.
- 長椅周圍的人群漸漸散去了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. When he heard these words, Shinran felt his inner doubts melt away.
- 聽到這番話，欣蘭感到他內心的疑慮頓時消散了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. In a large microwave-proof dish, melt butter for 20 seconds.
- 讓黃油在微波適用的大盤子里熔化20秒鐘。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Break up the chocolate and melt it.
- 把巧克力弄碎，使其熔化。
來自柯林斯例句