merge

英 [mɜːdʒ] 美[mɝdʒ]

CET6TEM4IELTS考研TOEFL中低频词核心词汇

第三人称单数: merges;过去式: merged;过去分词: merged;现在分词: merging;

merge 合并，融合

来自拉丁语mergere,浸入，浸没，来自PIE*mezg,浸入，浸没，词源同immerse,emerge.字母z被r音化。引申词义合并，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.: 他就像一条变色龙，可以神不知鬼不觉地隐藏在背景中间。

2. The rivers merge just north of a vital irrigation system.: 就在一个重要的灌溉系统的北边，这些河流交汇在一起。