blend: [13] Old English had a verb blendan, but it meant ‘make blind’ or ‘dazzle’. Modern English blend appears to come from blend-, the present stem of Old Norse blanda ‘mix’ (a relative of Old English blandan ‘mix’). The ultimate source of this is not clear, but it does not seem to be restricted to Germanic (Lithuanian has the adjective blandus ‘thick’ in relation to soup), so it may not be too far-fetched to suggest a link with blind, whose Indo-European ancestor *bhlendhos meant among other things ‘confused’.
blend (v.)
c. 1300, blenden, "to mix, mingle, stir up a liquid," in northern writers, from or akin to rare Old English blandan "to mix," blondan (Mercian) or Old Norse blanda "to mix," or a combination of the two; from Proto-Germanic *blandan "to mix," which comes via a notion of "to make cloudy" from an extended Germanic form of the PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.); also blind (adj.)). Compare Old Saxon and Old High German blantan, Gothic blandan, Middle High German blenden "to mix;" German Blendling "bastard, mongrel," and outside Germanic, Lithuanian blandus "troubled, turbid, thick;" Old Church Slavonic blesti "to go astray." Figurative use from early 14c. Related: Blended; blending.
blend (n.)
"mixture formed by blending," 1690s, from blend (v.).
雙語例句
1. Blend the butter with the sugar and beat until light and creamy.
把糖摻入黃油然后攪拌至滑軟細膩。
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2. It must have reinforced my determination to blend into my surroundings.
這勢必讓我更加下定決心融入周圍環境。
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3. The causes are a complex blend of local and national tensions.
原因很復雜，既有地方性沖突也有全國范圍的緊張局勢。
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4. Blend in the lemon extract, lemon peel and walnuts.
調入檸檬汁、檸檬皮和核桃。
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5. Blend a little milk with the custard powder to form a paste.