• 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.

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.

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

*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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2. The crowd around the bench began to melt away.

长椅周围的人群渐渐散去了。

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3. When he heard these words, Shinran felt his inner doubts melt away.

听到这番话，欣兰感到他内心的疑虑顿时消散了。

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4. In a large microwave-proof dish, melt butter for 20 seconds.

让黄油在微波适用的大盘子里熔化20秒钟。

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5. Break up the chocolate and melt it.

把巧克力弄碎，使其熔化。

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