amalgamate
英 [?'m?lg?me?t]
美 [?'m?lɡ?met]
- vi. 合并；汞齊化；調(diào)制汞合金
- vt. 合并；使（金屬）汞齊化；混合
助記提示
a-前綴：加強語氣，“malg”音似“mercury-汞”，a-連接字母，mate-使成為配偶、交配——與汞成為配偶——與汞混合，后泛指“混合”、“融合”。
英文詞源
- amalgamate
- amalgamate: [17] Amalgamate is a derivative of amalgam, a term for an alloy of mercury and another metal (now usually used for tooth fillings) borrowed into English from French or medieval Latin in the 15th century. Latin (amalagama) probably acquired the word from the Greek adjective málagma ‘softening’, a derivative of the verb malássein ‘soften’, which is a distant relative of English malleable (see MALLET).
- amalgamate (v.)
- 1650s, back-formation from amalgamation, or from adjective amalgamate (1640s) from amalgam. Originally in metallurgy; figurative sense of "to unite" (races, etc.) is attested from 1802. Related: Amalgamated; amalgamating. Earlier verb was amalgamen (1540s).
雙語例句
- 1. Their company is planning to amalgamate with ours.
- 他們公司正計劃同我們公司合并.
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- 2. The unions will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body.
- 工會將試圖合并其群體納入一個國家機構(gòu).
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- 3. Character: colorless , transparent liquid, with pungent smell, consistency : 1.049, melting point: 16.7℃, boiling point: 118℃. Amalgamate with water, ethanol and aether.
- 性狀: 無色澄清液體, 有刺激氣味, 密度為 1.049,熔點為 16.7 ℃, 沸點為118℃. 溶于水 、 乙醇、乙醚.
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- 4. The company has decided to amalgamate with the parent firm.
- 該公司決定并入總公司.
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- 5. These two universities will amalgamate.
- 這兩所大學(xué)將合并.
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