mingle

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min·gle /ˈmɪŋɡəl/ verb (mingled, mingling)

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]MIX if two feelings, sounds, smells etc mingle, they mix together with each other （使）混合

Add the mint and allow the flavours to mingle.

加入薄荷，把各种味道混合起来。

mingle with

Her perfume mingled with the smell of wood smoke from the fire.

她的香水味和炉火里木柴的烟味混合在一起。

be mingled with something

Her excitement was mingled with a slight feeling of fear.

她兴奋中带着一丝害怕。

2 [intransitiveI]MIX if you mingle at a party, you move around the room and talk to lots of different people 〔在聚会中〕应酬，交际

mingle with

She was eager to mingle with the other guests.

她急切地想和其他客人交谈。

Examples from the Corpus

mingle• Families mingled and enjoyed themselves at a block party.• Playfulness and formality can mingle, even at a wedding.• Mingling genuine news with gossip, she made a lively companion.• These four are eternal and are constantly mingling in different proportions and separating.• The noise was tremendous; bombs, guns, and engines mingled in discordant sound.• Our voices were mingled in poetry.• Heraklion mingles traditional charm with a bustling centre of pavement cafes and shops.• Here was a set of fake brass handles incongruously mingled with a different set of pewter fixtures.• They come to hear music and end up mingling with a lot of people they may not mingle with in everyday life.• They didn't bite, but they were mingled with ferocious mosquitoes, which did.• As usual he mingled with his guests, with whom he remained until just after ten o'clock.• The smell of the sea mingled with the faint scent of the grass.• Water spread across the floor in a greasy stream, mingling with the pile of filthy rubbish.

be mingled with something• We may emphasize that they are mingled with and followed by stories of a very different character.• They didn't bite, but they were mingled with ferocious mosquitoes, which did.• Then, considerations of safety were mingled with the exercise of power, and feelings and interests prevailed which are happily terminated.• Dire harmonic confusion would result were the bass to be mingled with the upper parts.

Origin mingle

(1400-1500) meng “to mix” ((11-19 centuries)), from Old English mengan

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