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

• It is a melting pot laced with all the flavours of African cultures and beyond.
  它是个社会大熔炉，融合了非洲国度以及全国列国的文化特色。
• Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God.
  像这样的一个大熔炉，有人在街角贩毒，也有牧师在向上帝祷告。
• It's a real melting pot where different cultures brainstorm ideas.
  这是一个真正的熔炉，不同的文化在此交融，并迸发出灵感。
• As in Japan, philosophy in China has become a melting pot of ideas.
  正如在日本，哲学在中国已成为一个大熔炉的想法。
• Our culture, politics, society and commerce are being sloshed into a large melting pot of humanity.
  我们的文化、政治、社会和商业都被放入一个人性的大熔炉里。
• People often see the United States as the big melting pot of a different race.
  人们常把美国看成是一个不同民族的大熔炉。
• 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。
• India is a melting pot of races and religions.
  印度是各种种族和宗教的汇集地。
• The melting pot does not melt away all recollections of another way of life in another place& nor should it.
  这个熔炉没有、也不应该熔掉对另一个地方的另一种生活方式的记忆。
• Passover sermon, a play, and a century of the Melting pot.
  逾越节的布道，一个戏剧，一个世纪大熔炉。