| 单词 | cold water | 
| 释义 | cold watern. a.  Water at its natural temperature, which is always many degrees below that of the human body, as opposed to warm or hot water. Often referred to as the simplest and most typical beverage; also as used for washing or bathing, or in hydropathy. ΚΠ c950    Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. x. 42  				Cælc wætres caldes. c1000    West Saxon Gospels: Matt. 		(Corpus Cambr.)	 x. 42  				Anne drinc cealdes wæteres. c1160    Hatton Gosp. Matt. x. 42  				Ænne drinc chealdes wæteres. c1400						 (?c1380)						    Patience l. 152  				Þenne suppe bihoued þe coge of þe colde water, & þenne þe cry ryses. 1611    Bible 		(King James)	 Prov. xxv. 25  				As cold waters to a thirstie soule: so is good newes from a farre  countrey.       View more context for this quotation 1799    Ann. Med. 1798 3 21  				Dr. Currie encouraged him to drink largely of cold water and lemonade. 1800    Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 397  				Historical Sketch of the Use of the Affusion of Cold Water. 1843    E. S. Abdy tr.  R. von Falkenstein Water Cure 		(ed. 2)	 106  				How the sudden application of cold water acts on the body. 1856    R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 75  				The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > font > 			[noun]		 font-fatOE fontOE fontOE cold watera1387 lavacre1548 christening font?c1603 lavatory1631 society > faith > artefacts > consumables > water > 			[noun]		 > used for baptism watereOE font watereOE bathOE cold watera1387 a1387    J. Trevisa tr.  R. Higden Polychron. 		(St. John's Cambr.)	 		(1874)	 V. 309  				Kyng Clodoneus [i.e. his godfather] took hym of þe cold water [L. de fonte suscepit]. a1387    J. Trevisa tr.  R. Higden Polychron. 		(St. John's Cambr.)	 		(1876)	 VI. 451  				Edmond feng Anlaf of þe colde water.  c.   to throw cold water on (alluding to the shock thus given to the naked body): to heap discouragement on, disparage, ‘damp’. Similarly,  to pour cold water upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate			[verb (transitive)]		 > dissuade > speak dissuasively of discommend1533 dissuadea1535 disadmonish1611 counter-argue1661 to throw cold water on1808 unsell1943 1808    Proc. Court Martial Lt. Gen. Whitelocke II. 442  				He had stated that I was throwing cold water on everything he did. 1883    I. L. Bishop in  Leisure Hour 86/2  				Who threw cold water on the idea. 1893    Times 26 Apr. 9/4  				He was obliged to pour cold water very plentifully upon the zeal of his Irish friends. 1950    A. Christie Murder is Announced viii. 96  				I understand she rather poured cold water on that idea?  d.  attributive, as in  cold water physician; esp. with reference to hydropathy, as  cold water cure,  cold water treatment, etc.; or (sportively) to the Total Abstinence movement, as  cold water army, etc. Also with reference to a dwelling without central heating (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > 			[noun]		 > cold water cold water physician1601 1601    P. Holland tr.  Pliny Hist. World II. 243  				[Asclepiades] brought vp first the allowing of cold water..to sick persons; and took pleasure to be called the Cold-water Physitian. 1807    Med. & Physical Jrnl. 17 323  				The cold-water treatment has in our hands been very successful. 1878    tr.  H. W. von Ziemssen et al.  Cycl. Pract. Med. XIII. 173  				The cold-water cure has been much and advantageously employed in diseases of the cord. 1942    M. McCarthy Company she Keeps 		(1943)	 v. 187  				A cold-water flat in an old-law tenement. 1954    W. Faulkner Fable 		(1955)	 334  				A walk-up, cold-water Brooklyn tenement. 1964    W. Markfield To Early Grave 		(1965)	 ii. 31  				He found himself a cold-water flat near the Village. Derivatives  cold-ˈwaterish adj. ΚΠ 1870    J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 		(1886)	 152  				That somewhat cold-waterish region. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). <  | 
	
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