| 词汇 | amalgam |
| 词源 | amalgam. Although the derivation of amalgam, meaning an alloy of metals or a combination of diverse elements, is of obscure origin, Weekley says the “most probable conjecture connects it, via Arabic, with the Greek for “marriage.’ ” The “ ‘marriage’ of the metals,” he notes, “is often referred to in al- chemistic jargon.” |
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