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Here melting does not mean ice turning to water. If someone gives you a melting look, or speaks in a melting voice, the eyes or the sound are so soft that you feel pity or love.
Here melting does not mean 這裡的melting不是指 ice turning to water 冰融化成水 If someone gives you a melting look, or speaks in a melting voice 如果有人給你一個melting look,或用melting voice說話 the eyes or the sound are so soft that you feel pity or love 那眼神或聲音柔軟到讓你心生憐愛
The person seems to melt your hardness — you want to be kind, or you fall a little in love. Writers like this use for a gentle, almost liquid softness in the face or the voice.
The person seems to melt your hardness 這個人好像融化了你的堅硬 you want to be kind, or you fall a little in love 讓你想要溫柔,或有點動心 Writers like this use 作家喜歡這樣用 for a gentle, almost liquid softness in the face or the voice 來形容臉上或聲音裡那種近乎液態的溫柔
It is a slightly old-fashioned, story-book compliment.
It is 這是 a slightly old-fashioned, story-book compliment 一種有點過時、像小說裡才會出現的讚美
In everyday talk a student is far more likely to hear melting about chocolate or ice; this “melting look” sense lives mainly in novels, songs, and careful description. Though actually, food writing still loves melting too (“meltingly tender”), but that is a different stretch: softness you can eat, not softness that moves the heart.
In everyday talk a student is far more likely to hear melting about chocolate or ice 日常生活中學生比較常聽到melting用在巧克力或冰上 this 'melting look' sense lives mainly in novels, songs, and careful description 這種『melting look』的用法主要活在小說、歌曲和細膩的描寫裡 Though actually 不過其實 food writing still loves melting too 美食寫作也很愛用melting ('meltingly tender') (像『meltingly tender』) but that is a different stretch 但那是另一種延伸用法 softness you can eat, not softness that moves the heart 是吃得到的柔軟,不是打動人心的柔軟
組成From the verb melt + -ing, used as an adjective. The picture is of something going soft, but here it is a feeling that goes soft.
同家族的字
- meltthe verb this adjective comes from
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
meltingadj/ˈmɛltɪŋ/
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Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
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Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
- What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
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That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
- And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.
meltingnoun/ˈmɛltɪŋ/
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The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
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The act of softening or mitigating.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。