merge

英 [m??d?] 美[m?d?]

CET6TEM4IELTS考研TOEFL中低頻詞核心詞匯

第三人稱單數:?merges;過去式:?merged;過去分詞:?merged;現在分詞:?merging;

merge 合并，融合

來自拉丁語mergere,浸入，浸沒，來自PIE*mezg,浸入，浸沒，詞源同immerse,emerge.字母z被r音化。引申詞義合并，整合等。

merge: merge: [17] Merge comes from Latin mergere, which meant ‘dive, plunge’ (it was also the source of English emerge [16], which etymologically means ‘rise out of a liquid’, immerse [17], and submerge [17]). Merge was originally used for ‘immerse’ in English too, and the modern meaning ‘combine into one’ did not emerge fully until as recently as the 20th century. It arose from the notion of one thing ‘sinking’ into another and losing its identity; in the 1920s this was applied to two business companies amalgamating, and the general sense ‘combine’ followed from it.
=> emerge, immerse, submerge
merge (v.): 1630s, "to plunge or sink in," from Latin mergere "to dip, dip in, immerse, plunge," probably rhotacized from *mezgo, from PIE *mezg- "to dip, plunge" (cognates: Sanskrit majjati "dives under," Lithuanian mazgoju "to wash"). Legal sense of "absorb an estate, contract, etc. into another" is from 1726. Related: Merged; merging. As a noun, from 1805.

1. Like a chameleon, he could merge unobtrusively into the background.: 他就像一條變色龍，可以神不知鬼不覺地隱藏在背景中間。

2. The rivers merge just north of a vital irrigation system.: 就在一個重要的灌溉系統的北邊，這些河流交匯在一起。