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1- (of ice, snow, or another frozen substance, such as food) become liquid or soft as a result of warming up（冰、雪等）融化, 融解; （冷冻食品等）解冻; 化冻：
the river thawed and barges of food began to reach the capital
河流解冻后, 一船船的食品开始运抵首都
as noun thawing catastrophic summer floods caused by thawing.冰雪融化引起的夏季水灾。
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- （it thaws, it is thawing等）the weather becomes warmer and melts snow and ice（天气）转暖使冰雪融化。
1.2
- with obj. make (something) warm enough to become liquid or soft使融化, 使融解; 使解冻; 使化冻：
European exporters simply thawed their beef before unloading.
欧洲的出口商们仅是在卸货前把牛肉解冻。
1.3
- (of a part of the body) become warm enough to stop feeling numb使（身体等）变得暖起来：
Riven began to feel his ears and toes thaw out.
里文开始觉得双耳和脚指头暖和起来了。
1.4
- become friendlier or more cordial变得随和（或缓和）; 变得不拘束, 变得友善：
she thawed out sufficiently to allow a smile to appear.
她变得随和了一些, 并露出了笑容。
1.5
- with obj. make friendlier or more cordial使变得较不拘束; 使变得友善（或缓和、随和）：
the cast thawed the audience into real pleasure.
演员们使观众摆脱拘束, 真正乐起来。
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- a period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow解冻时期（或季节）：
the thaw came yesterday afternoon.
昨天下午冰雪开始解冻。
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- an increase in friendliness or cordiality（关系、态度等）缓和：
a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR.
美国和苏联关系的解冻。
词源
Old English thawian (verb)， of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch dooien. The noun (first recorded in Middle English) developed its figurative use in the mid 19th cent.