There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth.

有物混成，先天地生。

We mix them into concrete that can hold up the tallest towers ever built, like the 828 meter tall Burj Khalifa that is 500 times larger than you.

将它混成混凝土可以筑起史最高的塔楼，比如828米高的哈利法塔，它是你的500倍高。

Portmanteaus can be nouns, verbs or adjectives.

混成词可以是名词、动词或形容词。

Perhaps the simplest theory is that cup of joe derives from a portmanteau, a term that combines two words to make a new one.

或许最简单的理论是，“杯乔”源自一个混成词（portmanteau），即将两个词结合成一个新词。

Then there was silence. They looked at one another and their thoughts, confounded in the same agony, clung close together like two throbbing breasts.

于是一阵沉默。 他们互相着，他们的思想在共同的混成一片，紧紧搂在一起，就像两个扑扑跳动的胸脯。

Thrown out on the winds it became twined in with them, and with them it flew away.

它被抛向劲风，和风声混成一体，然后随风一齐飞去。

By the time you get to your fourth essay, all the essays just blend to one.

等你写到第四篇论文时，之前看的所有论文就都混成一团了。

Take the portmanteaus you learned today and try to use them in sentences.

把今天学到的混成词用在句子。

This is is a blend of “teen” and “between.”

这是“青少年”和“间”的混成词。

In his follow-up book Though the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote about the idea of portmanteaus.

在他的后续著作《镜奇遇》，卡罗尔写了混成词的概念。

In today's report, we learned about “portmanteaus.”

在今天的课程，我们学习了“混成词”。

So how did a suitcase come to mean all blend words in English?

那么，手提箱在英语是如何表示所有混成词的呢？

“Internet” is also a portmanteau, which combines “interconnected” and “network.”

“互联网”也是混成词，由“互联”和“网络”组合而成。

You brought your adoration and your portmanteau here together.

你把你的崇拜和你的混成词带到了这里。

Yeah, it's both, it's both an acronym and a little bit of a portmanteau.

是的，它两者兼具，既是一个首字母缩略词，又带有点混成词的性质。

And then Peter won't get me mixed up with Susan.

然后彼得就不会把我搞混成苏珊了。

Loafers slash Lifers I think that's a portmanteau of love life, like loffers.

“懒”或“生活者”，我想这是“爱情生活”的混成词，像“乐福者”。

In the court-yard a cock crowed, others near by responded; then from the village, first singly, interrupting each other, then mingling into one chorus, was heard the crowing of all the cocks.

然后从村子里， 先是单独的， 互相打断，然后混成一团， 听到了所有公鸡的啼叫。

Compound or portmanteau words are an increasingly common source of new vocabulary (e.g. stagflation, edutainment, flexitarian, Disneyfication, frenemy, confuzzle, gastropub, bromance, hacktivist, chillax, infomercial, shareware, dramedy, gaydar, wellderly, techlash, etc).

复合词或混成词越来越成为新词汇的来源（例如，stagflation、edutainment、flexitarian、Disneyfication、frenemy、confuzzle、gastropub、bromance、hacktivist、chillax、infomercial、shareware、dramedy、gaydar、wellderly、techlash 等）。

A portmanteau is a term like brunch in which two words are combined. Usually one or both being shortened. If neither word is truncated as in corona cranky.

混成词是一种像“ brunch”这样的术语，两个单词被结合在一起。通常其一个或两个都被缩短。如果两个词都没有被截短，就像“冠状不爽”这样。