amalgamate
verb /əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
/əˈmælɡəmeɪt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they amalgamate | /əˈmælɡəmeɪt/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪt/ |
| he / she / it amalgamates | /əˈmælɡəmeɪts/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪts/ |
| past simple amalgamated | /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle amalgamated | /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form amalgamating | /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪŋ/ /əˈmælɡəmeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] if two organizations amalgamate or are amalgamated, they join together to form one large organization
（使）合并，联合 - A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university.
一些学院联合组成了这所新大学。 - amalgamate with/into something The company has now amalgamated with another local firm.
这家公司现在已与当地另一家公司合并了。 - amalgamate something They decided to amalgamate the two schools.
他们决定将两所学校合并。 - amalgamate something with/into something The two companies were amalgamated into one.
这两家公司合并成一家公司。
- A number of colleges have amalgamated to form the new university.
- [transitive] amalgamate something (into/with something) to put two or more things together so that they form one
使混合；使合并 - This information will be amalgamated with information obtained earlier.
这个信息要与早先得到的信息综合在一起。
- This information will be amalgamated with information obtained earlier.
词源early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin amalgamat- ‘formed into a soft mass’, from the verb amalgamare, from amalgama, from Greek malagma ‘an emollient’.