mal·lea·ble /ˈmæliəbəl, ˈmæljəbəl, ˈmæləbəl/
 (a.)有延展性的,可鍛的


 Mal·le·a·ble a.
 1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
 Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.
 Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

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 malleable
      adj 1: easily influenced [syn: ductile]
      2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
         copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
         leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made
         of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, pliable,
          pliant, tensile, tractile]