amalgam
amalgam 英 [əˈmælgəm] 美 [əˈmælɡəm]
n. [材] 汞合金，[化工] 汞齐；混合物
名词复数:amalgams
- In science, when you mix a metal with mercury to soften it, you create an amalgam. Otherwise, an amalgam is simply a combination of two or more unlike things into one.
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- n. [材] 汞合金，[化工] 汞齐；混合物
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1. Zero Degrees of Empathy is a strange amalgam of scientific sophistication and philosophical naivety.
《零度同情》是科学上的成熟和哲学上的天真的奇怪混合物。
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2. In 2006, with the review still incomplete, an independent FDA advisory panel of doctors and dentists rejected the agency's position that there is no reason for concern about the use of amalgam.
2006年，审查仍未完成，一个独立的美国食品药品管理局医生咨询小组和牙医拒绝接受该机构的立场，即没有理由担心汞合金的使用。
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3. So when we hear any particular sound, again, we're hearing an amalgam of many sounds, and the importance of each of these partials in the aggregate of sound is what gives it its particular color.
那么,当我们听到某个声音的时候,其实听到的是很多声音的混合物,混合声音中的这些分音之所以重要,就是因为它们决定了自身特定的音色
- amalgam (n.) c. 1400, "a blend of mercury with another metal; soft mass formed by chemical manipulation," from Old French amalgame or directly from Medieval Latin amalgama, "alloy of mercury (especially with gold or silver)," c. 1300, an alchemists' word, probably from Arabic al-malgham "an emollient poultice or unguent for sores (especially warm)" [Francis Johnson, "A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English"], which is itself perhaps from Greek malagma "softening substance," from malassein "to soften," from malakos "soft" (from PIE *meldh-, from root *mel- (1) "soft"). Figurative meaning "compound of different things" is from 1790.
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