Emerge



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 出现, 露出
• ［英］ v. 出现, 露出 ( to become manifest;to appear)
• ［记］ e ( 出) +merge ( 吞没) -> 吞没的东西露出 -> 出现
• ［同］ 同根词: submerge ( 潜水艇) ; merge ( 合并, 吞没)

Webster Collegiate

intransitive verb (emerged; emerging)

• Etymology: Latin emergere, from e- + mergere to plunge — more at merge
• Date: 1563
• 1. to become manifest ; become known <new problems emerged>
• 2. to rise from or as if from an enveloping fluid ; come out into view <a diver emerging from the water>
• 3. to rise from an obscure or inferior position or condition <someone must emerge as a leader>
• 4. to come into being through evolution

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