melting pot

英 [ˈmeltɪŋ pɒt]

美 [ˈmeltɪŋ pɑːt]

n.  熔炉(指多种民族、多种思想等融合混杂的地方或状况)

化学

习惯用语

n.

in the melting pot
• 要起变化；处于变化之中
  likely to change; in the process of changing

牛津词典

noun

• 熔炉（指多种民族、多种思想等融合混杂的地方或状况）
  a place or situation in which large numbers of people, ideas, etc. are mixed together
  1. the vast melting pot of American society
     美国社会这个大熔炉

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 熔炉(指不同民族或思想融合混杂的地方或状况)
  Amelting potis a place or situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together.
  1. The republic is a melting pot of different nationalities.
     这个共和国是多民族的大熔炉。
  2. ...the cultural melting pot...
     文化熔炉
  3. Marseilles has proved to be a better racial melting pot than Lyons.
     事实证明，与里昂相比，马赛是一个更好的种族大熔炉。
• PHRASE 仍在变化的;尚未定型的;难以预料的
  If something isin the melting pot, you do not know what is going to happen to it.
  1. Their fate is still in the melting pot.
     他们的命运仍然难以预料。

英英释义

noun

• a vessel made of material that does not melt easily
  Synonym:crucible
• an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated

双语例句

• The site of the first British colony in Australia, Sydney has evolved into a cosmopolitan melting pot.
  作为澳大利亚的第一个英国殖民地，悉尼已成为国际化的大熔炉。
• India is a melting pot of races and religions.
  印度是各种种族和宗教的汇集地。
• Their fate is still in the melting pot.
  他们的命运仍然难以预料。
• Boston is a melting pot, and tension is building.
  波士顿就像一个大熔炉，气氛越发紧张。
• Since then, the metaphor of the melting pot has evolved.
  从那个时候起，大熔炉这个比喻逐渐形成。
• Our vast array of traditions and perspectives and backgrounds our melting pot is what makes America unique.
  美国是一个大熔炉，正是我们多元的传统、视角和背景，才让美国人与众不同。
• We need to uphold the great tradition of the melting pot that welcomes and assimilates new arrivals.
  我们需要坚持欢迎和同化新移民的大熔炉这一伟大传统。
• Us expatriates are adding flavours to the melting pot.
  海外美国人正为这个大熔炉增添了新的气息。
• We have been thrown into the great melting pot of the globalization.
  我们已经被投入了全球化的大熔炉里了！
• That serious scholars should be talking about a melting pot is itself a reversal.
  严肃的学者开始谈论大融炉问题本身就反映了社会潮流的逆转。