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cold LOW TEMPERATUREHkEJld, $koJldadj, n-er, -est (at) a low temperature esp. when compared to the temperature of the human body, and not hot or warm气温低的，冷的，寒冷的cold weather寒冷的天气a cold day冷天cold food冰冷的食物cold hands冰冷的双手a cold house寒冷的屋子cold water冷水You'll be/get/feel cold if you don't wear a coat.如果你不穿外套的话会感到冷的。It's bitterly (=extremely) cold outside.外面冷极了。Come and drink your soup or it'll go/get cold.快来喝汤吧，否则它就要冷掉了。Feel my toes--they're as cold as ice.摸摸我的脚趾头吧----它们冻得像冰一样。Look at you! You're blue/shivering with cold. [U]你看你！都冻得发青/发抖了。The cold is cold temperature or cold weather.寒冷的天气Don't stand out there in the cold, come in here and get warm.别站在外面挨冻，快进来暖一暖吧。Old people tend to feel the cold (=feel uncomfortable in cold temperatures) more than the young.老年人比年轻人更容易感到寒冷。A person might be said to get/have cold feet when they experience a loss of confidence and sometimes unwillingness before doing something risky or difficult.退缩When children are playing a guessing or searching game they might say "you are getting colder" to the person who is guessing or searching to tell them that they are getting further away from the answer or hidden object.距离（答案，目标）越来越远了If you pour/throw cold water on an idea or suggestion you are not enthusiastic about it and you discourage it by saying that it will not be possible or successful.对…泼冷水，使对…气馁His boss is always pouring cold water on his proposals, even when they are very good.他的老板总是对他的提议泼冷水，即使它们有时候很不错。(Br) A cold bag (Br also freezer bag, Am cooler bag) is a bag in which you transport food and drink, and which has a special thick material inside it to help keep the food and drink cold.冷藏袋Cold-blooded animals, such as snakes, can only control their body heat by taking in heat from the outside or by being very active.冷血动物 [COLD中的coldblooded]A person in business makes a cold call when he or she telephones or visits a possible customer to try to sell them something without being asked by the customer to do so.（无事先接触或缘由径自打给潜在主顾的）促销电话If someone says that something is cold comfort they mean that it is really not any comfort.不起作用的安慰￡5 000 compensation for an accident is cold comfort when you've lost a leg.当你在事故中失去一条腿后，5000英镑的赔偿根本就不能使人感到安慰。Cold cream is a thick white oily substance used mainly by women to clean the skin and stop it from becoming too dry.冷霜Cold cuts are thin flat slices of cold meat.切成片的冷熟肉A cold frame is a glass or plastic box, with a top which can be left open, into which young plants are put for a short time, esp. in order to help them grow faster or to protect them from very cold weather.用来保护秧苗的玻璃罩子，冷床The cuttings were kept in a cold frame over the winter.插枝在冬天时被保存在冷床里。A cold front is the weather condition in which an advancing mass of cold air pushes into a mass of warm air resulting in a fall in temperature.冷锋(humorous) A person might say they need a cold shower if something has made them feel sexually excited at a time which is not convenient.从性的冲动中冷静下来I think I'd better take a cold shower!我想我最好还是冷静一下！A cold snap is a short period of cold icy weather.乍寒，骤冷If something, for example food, is kept in cold storage it is put in artificially cold conditions, usually to preserve it.冷藏A cold sweat is a state of uncontrollable anxiety and fear.冷汗I came out in a cold sweat when I realized I had left the house unlocked.当我意识到自己没把屋子锁好时，我出了一把冷汗。The sound of his voice put me in a cold sweat.他的嗓音使我捏了一把冷汗。(Am and Aus slang) Cold turkey is the period of extreme suffering which comes immediately after a person has stopped taking a drug on which they are dependent.（突然完全停止吸毒的）戒毒治疗法He went through cold turkey to cure his heroin addiction.他通过完全戒毒疗法来治疗他的吸海洛因瘾。(saying) 'Cold hands, warm heart' means that if you have cold hands, you are a kind person.外表冷淡心肠热"A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the year / For a journey" (from T.S.Eliot's poem 'Journey of the Magi' in Ariel Poems, 1927)“这趟前来真挨了冷啦/偏在一年天气最坏的时候/出门上路，还是这么远的路”（选自T.S.艾略特的诗歌《三贤人的旅程》）
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