merge
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they merge | |
| he / she / it merges | |
| past simple merged | |
| past participle merged | |
| -ing form merging |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to combine or make two or more things combine to form a single thing （使）合并，结合，并入 The banks are set to merge next year. 这几家银行准备明年合并。 The two groups have merged to form a new party. 两大组织合并组成一个新党。 - merge with something
His department will merge with mine. 他的部门将和我的合并。 - merge into something
The villages expanded and merged into one large town. 这些村庄扩大了并且结合成了一个大集镇。 - merge (A and B) (together)
Fact and fiction merge together in his latest thriller. 在他最新的惊险小说中，真实和虚构交织在一起。 - merge A with B
His department will be merged with mine. 他的部门将和我的合并。 - merge something
The company was formed by merging three smaller firms. 公司是由三家小公司合并组成的。 - merge something into something
Merge multiple text files into one master file. 将多个文本文件合并到一个主文件中。
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1The company announced plans to merge with its biggest rival. 该公司宣布计划与其最大的竞争对手合并。 The two groups later merged to form Interdrug. 这两个团体后来合并成了Interdrug。 The government decided to merge the two agencies together. 政府决定将这两个机构合并。
- [intransitive] merge (into something)
if two things merge, or if one thing merges into another, the differences between them gradually disappear so that it is impossible to separate them 相融；融入；渐渐消失在某物中 The hills merged into the dark sky behind them. 山峦渐渐隐入背后漆黑的夜空之中。 The figures gradually merged into the darkness. 人影渐渐融入黑暗中。
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘immerse oneself’): from Latin mergere ‘to dip, plunge’; the legal sense is from Anglo-Norman French merger.
Idioms
merge into the background
(of a person 人 to behave quietly when you are with a group of people so that they do not notice you 悄悄融入整体；不求闻达