melt
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 熔化，熔化物，溶解
- v.
- (使)熔化，(使)溶解，(使)消散，(使)变软
演变路径（由近及远）
原始词根
原始印欧语 *(s)meld-
词源说明
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
释义（英文）
动词 Verb
- (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) 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.
- (intransitive) To be discouraged.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely