melt

• vi. 熔化，溶解；渐混
• vt. 使融化；使熔化；使软化；使感动
• n. 熔化；熔化物

来自古英语meltan,液化，熔化，融化，来自PIE*mel,软的，词源同mallet,mild.

1. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid;

"the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"

"the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

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 gemæltan (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.

melt, dissolve, fuse

这些动词均含"融化，溶解"之意。

melt： 最常用词，指任何固体的熔化过程，常引申作"消散、淡化或消失"解。

dissolve： 多指固体溶于溶剂的过程。

fuse可与melt换用，但侧重指在高温下使两种或两种以上金属的熔合，也可作引申用。

It melted at temperatures a bit higher than those of today.

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The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

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The snow showed no sign of melting.

雪没有一点融化的迹象。

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melting ice

正在融化的冰

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The sun had melted the snow.

阳光融化了积雪。

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First, melt two ounces of butter.

先熔好两盎司黄油。

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The tension in the room began to melt.

屋里的紧张气氛开始缓和。

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Her trusting smile melted his heart.

她那信任的微笑使他的心变软了。

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At the first sign of trouble, the crowd melted away.

人群一看有麻烦，便渐渐散了。

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The snow had melted, but the lake was still frozen solid...

雪已经融化了，但是湖面上仍然冻得结结实实的。

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Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate in a bowl suspended over simmering water...

同时，把碗置于微沸的水上，将白巧克力放入碗中使其熔化。

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His anxiety about the outcome melted, to return later but not yet...

他对未知结果的焦虑消散了，这种焦虑过后还会袭上心头，但至少现在还没有。

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He would have struggled but his strength had melted.

他本欲作一番挣扎，却已力不从心。

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The youths dispersed and melted into the darkness...

年轻人散开了，消失在夜幕之中。

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The squadron's armour is draped in sand-coloured nets that melt into the landscape.

装甲连的装甲车上罩着沙色的网，和周围的风景融为一体。

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When his lips break into a smile, it is enough to melt any woman's heart...

他粲然一笑就足以让任何女人心软。

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When a bride walks down the aisle to a stirring tune, even the iciest of hearts melt.

当新娘伴着激动人心的乐曲走在教堂的走廊上时，即便最冰冷的心都会融化。

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...a tuna melt.

金枪鱼奶酪三明治

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If you warm ice, it will melt into water.

如果你给冰加热它会融化成水.

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Melt down the gold plate.

把这金盘子化掉.

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It is easy to melt ice.

融化冰很容易.

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His enthusiasm is enough to melt a heart of stone.

他的热诚足以软化铁石心肠.

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Heat will melt iron.

热将使铁熔化.

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He had learnt how to melt invisibly into the background.

他已经学会如何退居幕后.

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The temperature is going up; will the snow melt?

气温正逐渐上升, 雪会融化 吗 ?

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The ice cream softened and began to melt.

冰淇淋开始变软并开始融化.

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