| 词组 | coalesce |
| 释义 | coalesce When coalesce is used with a preposition, into is the one used most often, whatever the sense of the verb: • Eventually they will coalesce into a single metropolitan area —John Fischer, Harper's, April 1972 Less frequently, coalesce may be followed by with or in: • It was in this way that it coalesced so readily with the anti-rationalistic bias of the historical revolt — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925 • ... hardly soluble problems have coalesced in one problem which solves itself —George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, 1921 When coalesce is used to mean "to unite for a common end," it may be also used with around or, occasionally, on: • ... causing a sizable number of party faithful to coalesce around Kennedy —Godfrey Sperling, Jr., Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 1980 • ... the Republican, Democratic, and Liberal Parties coalesced on a candidate —Gus Tyler, New Republic, 23 Aug. 1954 |
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