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n. 熔化, 熔化物, 溶解

vt. (使)熔化, (使)溶解, (使)消散, (使)变软

vi. (使)熔化, (使)溶解, (使)消散, (使)变软

[医] │熔化

[经] 兑现, (把支票等)换成现金




    melt
    molten
    [ noun ]
    1. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

    2. <noun.process>
      the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster
      the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours
    [ verb ]
    1. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating

    2. <verb.change> melt down run
      melt butter
      melt down gold
      The wax melted in the sun
    3. become or cause to become soft or liquid

    4. <verb.change>
      dethaw dissolve thaw unfreeze unthaw
      The sun melted the ice
      the ice thawed
      the ice cream melted
      The heat melted the wax
      The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase
      dethaw the meat
    5. become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial

    6. <verb.change>
      mellow mellow out
      With age, he mellowed
    7. lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

    8. <verb.change>
      meld
      Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene
    9. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly

    10. <verb.change>
      fade
      The scene begins to fade
      The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk
    11. become less intense and fade away gradually

    12. <verb.change>
      disappear evaporate
      her resistance melted under his charm
      her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance


    Melt \Melt\ (m[e^]lt), n. (Zo["o]l.)
    See 2d {Milt}.


    Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Melted} (obs.) p. p. {Molten};
    p. pr. & vb. n. {Melting}.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr.
    me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf.
    {Smelt}, v., {Malt}, {Milt} the spleen.]
    1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to
    liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or
    snow.

    2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to
    relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences;
    sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of;
    to weaken.

    Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
    --Shak.

    For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden.

    Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.


    Melt \Melt\, v. i.
    1. To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the
    influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate
    temperatures.

    2. To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

    3. Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle;
    also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.

    My soul melteth for heaviness. --Ps. cxix.
    28.

    Melting with tenderness and kind compassion. --Shak.

    4. To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See {fondue}.

    The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing
    outlines, overlapping and melting into each other.
    --J. C.
    Shairp.

    5. To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog
    melts away. --Shak.

    1. Bush, after leading strongly in public opinion polls in New Hampshire, saw his advantage melt away after he finished third in the Iowa caucuses Feb. 8, beaten by Dole and former television evangelist Pat Robertson.
    2. A small ceramic cone inside, set to melt at a certain temperature, will tell her whether the kiln is hot enough.
    3. Just a 20-minute walk east from the spires of London's high finance and the dome of St. Paul's, signs of England melt away into the sounds and smells of the Asian subcontinent.
    4. The crew abandoned plans to melt and then crystallize a metal sample in a furnace and to photograph lightning and polluted areas on Earth.
    5. Unself-consciously, the littlest cast member with the big voice steps into the audience in one number to open her wide cat-eyes and throat to melt the heart of one lucky patron each night.
    6. Barely melt the butter.
    7. A record warm winter threatened to melt away the Holmenkollen Ski Festival, which begins Thursday, so organizers hauled in 5,600 tons of snow by rail at about 1.5 cents a pound to rescue the event.
    8. Weirton will melt the cylinders to create scrap steel for food and beverage containers.
    9. Such a warming trend could melt polar ice caps and cause sea levels to rise, cause devere droughts and storms and disrupt the Earth's biological systems.
    10. 'Kiss kiss' refers to the bits where two people melt together, softened by the string section and lured by the cosmic push towards Oneness.
    11. On a 100-plus degree day, the pavement seems to melt in the distance under a blistering sun, and dogs nap in what shade they can find.
    12. The defense secretary, en route to Saudi Arabia to discuss with ground commanders U.S. contingency plans for war, said the administration's resolve to restore Kuwait would not melt if Saddam gave up some of the conquered territory.
    13. Tropical chocolate, a synthetic that tastes like the real thing but won't melt in the heat, could be ready for shipment to the Persian Gulf in time for the holidays.
    14. They fear this "greenhouse effect" may cause crop-threatening droughts and partially melt polar ice caps, which could raise sea levels up to 15 feet and threaten coastal cities.
    15. Greenhouse gases trap infrared heat in the Earth's atmosphere, leading to global warming that could melt ice at the North and South poles and lead to flooding of low-lying coastal areas.
    16. If they don't melt, they're included.
    17. "Not only are we well below what we normally are, but there is no snow upstate and you rely on the melt off of that snowpack in the spring," said Tina Casey, a spokeswoman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
    18. And products containing chocolate can melt in high temperatures.
    19. It's much cheaper to buy an old can and melt it down for new aluminum than to refine aluminum ore.
    20. Warmer weather will melt polar ice packs in summer, raising the sea level by 8-60 inches over the next 50 years, it said.
    21. New Yorkers don't see the vast majority of homeless, who virtually melt into the subterranean darkness.
    22. But a 10-degree rise could expand ocean water and melt enough polar ice to raise sea level nearly three feet, flooding coastal regions worldwide, some scientists say.
    23. Concerts would end with audiences and performers cheering and applauding each other for 15 to 20 minutes, as if proclaiming to themselves and to the world: Thus we shall conquer differences, thus we shall make enmity melt, thus we shall have peace.
    24. Allow longer, or less, for very well-cooked or crisp results. While the vegetables are cooking, melt the butter in a small frying pan.
    25. A construction worker said that workers were using a propane torch to melt rubber to lay a new roof on top of the building.
    26. The former head of U.S. laser weapons research said Thursday he was impressed by a Soviet laser he saw melt a piece of metal, but added that neither superpower would consider the equipment state-of-the-art technology.
    27. The fibers can withstand temperatures of as much as 2,000 degrees Celsius, more than twice the temperature at which conventional optical fibers would melt, say Kent Murphy and Richard Claus of Virginia Tech's Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Center.
    28. To help melt the ice, controllers told the astronauts to raise the temperature in their primary cooling system.
    29. Moreover, they say it could melt the ice caps, threatening coastal areas with higher seas, and even produce stronger hurricanes in future years.
    30. "Warm temperatures and sunny skies throughout the West in April caused snowpack to melt sooner than usual for the month," said Wilson Scaling, chief of the department's Soil Conservation Service.
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