| 词组 | melt |
| 释义 | melt [melted, melted, melting] melt away 1. melt away to gradually disappear: ▪ Harman saw her hopes of promotion slowly melt away. ▪ He laughed suddenly, and all the irritation in his face melted away. + into ▪ The high rocky cliffs melted away into long stretches of silvery beach. ▪ Olivia saw his hard look melt away into tenderness. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑fade away 2. melt away if people melt away, they gradually move away from someone or somewhere, often until they have completely disappeared: ▪ By the time the police appeared, most of the crowd had melted away. + into ▪ He looked back briefly, but Coleman had already melted away into the darkness. 3. melt away • melt away sth • melt sth away to melt or to make something melt completely or until it has disappeared: ▪ The next day it was a surprise to wake up and find that the snow had melted away. ▪ The hot steam melts away the sticky oils and greases in the carpet releasing dirt which can be vacuumed up later. melt down melt sth down • melt down sth to heat metal until it becomes a liquid and can be used again: ▪ Silver from this period is rare, as it was melted down in the Revolution to fund wars. ▪ The beautiful copper engraving had been melted down to make a tea-kettle. meltdown n C,U a very dangerous situation in which the material in a nuclear reactor melts and burns through its container, allowing radioactivity (energy that is very harmful to living things) to escape. A nuclear reactor is a large machine that produces nuclear energy.: ▪ One incident at Greifswald nearly caused a meltdown in 1976, which would have been a disaster even greater than Chernobyl. melt into 1. melt into sth to disappear or change and be replaced by something else: ▪ She watched the hope in his face melt into disappointment. ▪ The crowd's cheers melted into gasps of admiration and approval. 2. melt into sth if people melt into a crowd, a wood etc, they move towards it and into it until they are part of it and cannot be seen.: ▪ Lesley said goodbye and watched him melt into the crowds. ▪ One of the boys ran straight past and melted into the shadows before anyone could stop him. ▪ There was no-one at the party that he knew or wanted to know. He decided to melt into the background. ■ SIMILAR TO: disappear |
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