c. 1400, "blend of mercury with another metal; soft mass formed by chemical manipulation," from Old French amalgame or directly from Medieval Latin amalgama, "alloy of mercury (especially with gold or silver)," an alchemists' word, perhaps an alteration of Latin malagma "poultice, plaster," probably from Arabic al-malgham "an emollient poultice or unguent for sores (especially warm)" [Francis Johnson, "A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English"], perhaps from Greek malagma "softening substance," from malassein "to soften," from malakos "soft."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The film script is an amalgam of all three books.
這個(gè)電影腳本由三本書合成。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. To counter this myth, we explained that we're really an amalgam of little guys.