| 釋義 |
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.” 開始溶解、就要降落在我們光禿禿的、沒有防御的頭上。 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?”你可曾看見太陽和一碟牛油接吻沒有? 那多情的太陽神,牛油聽了他的甜言蜜語就溶化了。(按: pitiful Titan,有的編訂者改作pitiful butter.) 3. become softened or tender,give way to one’s feel-ing心軟,感情用事。 △1H.IV.3.1.211 (209): “Nay,ifyou melt. then will she run mad.”不行,你要是心一軟,她非發(fā)瘋不可。 △ 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.” 我做攝政大臣時,心慈面軟才是我惟一的過錯,因為我一見犯人的眼淚就心軟。 △H.VIII.2.3.11: “Hearts of most hard temper/Melt and lament for her.”鐵石心腸的人也會為她心軟下來而感到悲痛的。 4. be softened to gentle and tender passion,or totears 因柔情而感傷,不禁淚下。 △3H.VI.2.3.46: “I,thatdid never weep,now melt with woe / That wintershould cut off our springtime so.” 我從來不哭,現(xiàn)在也不禁淚下,因為寒冬竟這樣摧折我們的青春。 melt[?melt]n.& v.熔化,融解,把(支票等)兌現(xiàn),解除禁令 ◇melt away溶解,消失掉 melt down銷毀,變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)金,變賣財產(chǎn) 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[?meltdaun]n.徹底垮臺,核反應堆預熱煅燒 melter n. 爐工 melting adj.熔化的,柔情的 meltingly adv.melt-piont n. 熔點 meltwater n. 溶水 |