- 1熔融的（專指高溫下呈液態的金屬或岩石；奶油、巧克力融化不說 molten）
Molten means turned into a thick, glowing liquid by very high heat. We say molten steel, molten glass, molten rock. Lava is molten rock pouring from a volcano. A factory may pour molten metal into a shape and let it cool hard. It is an adjective, and it keeps a serious, hot feel — industry, volcanoes, danger. Though actually, you almost never use it for food or everyday things: chocolate, butter, and ice are melted, not molten. Molten is for stuff that needs fierce heat to go liquid. In older English this was simply a past form of melt; English kept that old shape for this high-heat sense, while melted became the everyday word.
From the word’s history
From Old English molten 'melted', from Proto-Germanic *multanaz, past participle of *meltaną 'to melt'.
源自古英文 molten「融化的」，原是「融化」的過去分詞。
組成From Middle English molten, Old English molten / ġemolten “melted,” the old past participle of melt (Germanic *meltaną “to melt”). English kept this old shape for metal and rock made liquid by great heat.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
moltenadj/ˈmɒltən/
- 1
Melted, especially due to great heat
- molten metal, wax, rock
- Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
- 2
Made from a melted substance.
- 3
Glowing red-hot.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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