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merge

verb
 
🔊/mɜːdʒ/
🔊/mɜːrdʒ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they merge
🔊/mɜːdʒ/
🔊/mɜːrdʒ/
he / she / it merges
🔊/ˈmɜːdʒɪz/
🔊/ˈmɜːrdʒɪz/
past simple merged
🔊/mɜːdʒd/
🔊/mɜːrdʒd/
past participle merged
🔊/mɜːdʒd/
🔊/mɜːrdʒd/
-ing form merging
🔊/ˈmɜːdʒɪŋ/
🔊/ˈmɜːrdʒɪŋ/
Idioms
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  1.  
    [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 Examples
    • The company announced plans to merge with its biggest rival.该公司宣布了与最大竞争对手合并的计划。
    • The two groups later merged to form Interdrug.这两个团体后来合并为药物间。
    • The government decided to merge the two agencies together.政府决定将这两个机构合并。
    Topics Businessc1
  2.  
    [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.人物逐渐融入黑暗。
    3. 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
  1. (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