melt down

英 [melt daʊn]

美 [melt daʊn]

熔化（以再利用）

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柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 熔化，熔毁(以再利用)
  If an objectis melted down, it is heated until it melts, so that the material can be used to make something else.
  1. Some of the guns were melted down and used to help build a statue...
     一些枪炮被回炉后用来建造了一座雕像。
  2. When Jefferson didn't like a pair of goblets given to him as a gift, he asked a local smith to melt them down...
     杰斐逊不喜欢别人作为礼物送给他的一对高脚杯，就请当地的一个工匠把酒杯熔毁了。
  3. Some thieves do not even bother to melt down stolen silver for its scrap value.
     有的小偷懒得为了一点蝇头小利去费劲把偷来的银器熔掉。

英英释义

verb

• reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
  1. melt butter
  2. melt down gold
  3. The wax melted in the sun
  Synonym:meltrun

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