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meltvi. 1. dissolve,become liquid 溶解,溶化。 △2H.IV.2.4.398 (364):“doth begin to melt / And drop upon ourbare unarmed heads.” 开始溶解、就要降落在我们光秃秃的、没有防御的头上。 2. become liquid,vanish 溶化,消失。 △1H.IV.2.4.135 (120):“Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter—pitiful-hearted Titan—that (i.e. the butter) mel-ted at the sweet tale of the sun’s?”你可曾看见太阳和一碟牛油接吻没有? 那多情的太阳神,牛油听了他的甜言蜜语就溶化了。(按: pitiful Titan,有的编订者改作pitiful butter.) 3. become softened or tender,give way to one’s feel-ing心软,感情用事。 △1H.IV.3.1.211 (209): “Nay,ifyou melt. then will she run mad.”不行,你要是心一软,她非发疯不可。 △ 2H.VI.3.1.124: “whiles I wasProtector,/ Pity was all the fault that was in me;For I should melt at an offender’s tears.” 我做摄政大臣时,心慈面软才是我惟一的过错,因为我一见犯人的眼泪就心软。 △H.VIII.2.3.11: “Hearts of most hard temper/Melt and lament for her.”铁石心肠的人也会为她心软下来而感到悲痛的。 4. be softened to gentle and tender passion,or totears 因柔情而感伤,不禁泪下。 △3H.VI.2.3.46: “I,thatdid never weep,now melt with woe / That wintershould cut off our springtime so.” 我从来不哭,现在也不禁泪下,因为寒冬竟这样摧折我们的青春。 melt[ˈmelt]n.& v.熔化,融解,把(支票等)兑现,解除禁令 ◇melt away溶解,消失掉 melt down销毁,变为现金,变卖财产 melt into distance消失 melt up熔化 ‖meltability n.meltable adj.可熔化的,易熔的,可解除的 meltableness n.meltage n.熔解物,熔解量 meltdown[ˈmeltdaun]n.彻底垮台,核反应堆预热煅烧 melter n. 炉工 melting adj.熔化的,柔情的 meltingly adv.melt-piont n. 熔点 meltwater n. 溶水 |