melting pot
大熔炉,大融炉,大熔罐,大融汇
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- : a pot in which metals or other substances are melted or fused.
- : a country, locality, or situation in which cultural assimilation results in blending the heritage and traditions of previously distinct ethnic groups.
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A patchwork network of vaccination—highly vaccinated populations side-by-side with unvaccinated populations—creates a melting pot for the virus to simmer into something stronger, something worse.
America, the land of the ethno-racial melting pot, is once again facing what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal optimistically called The American Dilemma in 1944.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.
Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.
Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.
So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!
Gunn touched the brim of his soft felt hat, which he wore turned down all round apparently in imitation of a flower-pot.
The pot goeth so long to the water til at length it commeth broken home.
All the lower sky was pink, melting imperceptibly into the still pale blue of day.