Consolidate

(verb.) make firm or secure; strengthen; 'consolidate one's gains'; 'consolidate one's hold on first place'.

(verb.) make or form into a solid or hardened mass; 'consolidate fibers into boards'.

(verb.) form into a solid mass or whole; 'The mud had consolidated overnight'.

(verb.) unite into one; 'The companies consolidated'.

(verb.) bring together into a single whole or system; 'The town and county schools are being consolidated'.

整理:莫尼卡

• Was it a systematic survey of a world he meant to consolidate into one great order, or was it a wild-goose chase? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By the same subterranean force that helped consolidate them. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Thereupon (1218) the great host of horsemen that Jengis Khan had consolidated and disciplined swept over the Pamirs and down into Turkestan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Franco-Germany he united was consolidated by his son Charlemagne. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Octavian took the hardier west, and consolidated his power; Antony had the more gorgeous east--and Cleopatra. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gradually the Ottoman princes consolidated an empire that reached from the Taurus mountains in the east to Hungary and Roumania in the west. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Western Union Telegraph Company thought this was a first-rate scheme, and bought the thing out, but afterward they consolidated, and I quit the telephone business. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He was in command of two divisions of the 16th corps, consolidated into one. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• All strata are sedimentary, consolidated at the bottom of the sea by the pressure of the water and by subterranean heat. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

录入:米尔顿