a place or situation in which large numbers of different people, ideas, etc. are mixed together 熔炉（指多种民族、多种思想等融合混杂的地方或状况） the vast melting pot of American society 美国社会这个大熔炉
CultureThe phrase 'the melting pot' has been used to describe the US, because it is a country in which people from many different races and cultures are mixed together to form the US people. The British writer Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) wrote a play called The Melting Pot (1903) about Jewish immigrants in America.
Idioms
in the melting pot
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likely to change; in the process of changing 要起变化；处于变化之中