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Melt English Back Produced Latin Mollis Germanic Past

正面 3484.melt
英 [melt]美 [mɛlt]

背面
释义:
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
例句:
1. 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。

1. 谐音“死拉门、使拉门”---使劲儿拉门。
melt 熔化,融化来自古英语meltan,液化,熔化,融化,来自PIE*mel,软的,词源同mallet,mild.
meltmelt: [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, smeltmelt (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."

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