melting-pot
n
1 (usu sing 通常作单数) place where large numbers of immigrants from many different countries live together 大量多国移民聚居的地方
New York is a vast melting-pot of different nationalities. 纽约是不同国籍的人的聚居地.
2 be in/go into the `melting-pot be likely to change/be in the process of changing 要起变化[在改变中]
All our previous ideas are now in the melting-pot; our jobs are bound to change radically. 我们从前的一切观念都正在改变, 我们的工作肯定要有很大变动.