单词 | cold |
释义 | cold I. 1. a. < quite cold weather > < it was cold yesterday > < the rain was very cold now, almost frigid, and they shuddered — Norman Mailer > < a cold and drafty hallway > < cold arctic seas > < have trouble starting with a cold motor > — distinguished from cool b. < a cold metallic substance > c. < a cold spot is the typical cold receptor in higher vertebrates > 2. a. b. of a sign of the zodiac 3. a. < he's a pretty cold one — Ernest Hemingway > < the cold, correct, regular, narrow poetry of Pope — A.L.Kroeber > < this novel leaves the reader cold > b. < one of the cold kisses that he disliked so much — Archibald Marshall > c. < his cold, mean, selfish policy toward those whom he liked to segregate and hate as his enemies — W.A.White > < the court becomes a cold place for the self-exiled queen — H.O.Taylor > d. < the cold neutrality of an impartial judge — Edmund Burke > < cold, sullen, unreliable, brusque, unconventional, grasping, a man of iron will — C.L.Jones > e. < the discouragement of playing to a cold audience > < the mawkish appeal left him cold > < to his astonishment, he finds the people of his village cold to this noble and time-honored sentiment — Arthur Knight > f. < a cold calculated punishing punch in the mouth — John Steinbeck > < that a goodly part of the illegal drug supply is grown and processed in China; that it is spread with cold deliberation to other countries — Meyer Berger > g. < how cold economic considerations and calculations prevail in all matters of international importance — H.W.Van Loon > < the cold argument and unhurried process of trial in the courts of law — W.C.Dickinson > 4. a. < a cold collation > < cold boiled ham > b. < the soup was cold > c. < stored in a cold cellar > d. < cold soft drinks > e. < drive rivets cold > < a cold-bent iron pipe > < cold-forged steel > 5. a. < a cold correctness in the way he put his bicycle in its place that made her heart sink — D.H.Lawrence > < the cold respectability of a Pharisee's dining room — W.L.Sullivan > b. < I hold a key in my hand and it is cold — Muriel Rukeyser > < cold blank walls > c. of a color 6. a. < lay cold in his coffin — Margaret A. Barnes > b. < knocked out cold > < pass out cold > c. < you're as good as found guilty because they never crack down unless they have you cold — Polly Adler > d. < the actors had their lines cold a week before the opening night > e. slang 7. a. of a soil b. of a manure < cold pig manure > 8. < the children came back in when they were cold > 9. obsolete, of foods < cold plants > 10. < the Roman copy is almost inevitably colder, less alive, less emotional, and (above all) less expressive than the Greek — Hunter Mead > < a cold traffic of minds and ideas and, for all the melodrama, not a clash of living people — J.R.Newman > a. < dogs trying to follow the cold scent > : retaining only faint scents, traces, or clues < the trail had become cold > b. < the story is now too cold to be newsworthy > c. < a stenographer trying to transcribe cold notes > d. < trading the hot car for a cold one > e. 11. < competing on a basis of sheer cold efficiency — T.W.Arnold > < the cold facts of the case > < presenting cold statistics > 12. a. b. < an erratic bowler, sometimes hot, sometimes cold > < hot and cold periods even fall … upon writers — C.B.Davis > c. < a cold munitions plant in peace times > d. slang, of dice 13. a. < instead of opening cold in New York, all the productions have had a week of preliminary performing in Hartford — Brooks Atkinson > < they came here cold, years ago, not knowing many people — J.P.Marquand > < a substitute entering the game cold > b. in radio & television < a program that comes on cold > < cold drama > < the salesman had to approach the prospective customer cold > < cold selling > 14. < a cold five thousand dollars > 15. < a cold cross > 16. 17. < the cold fauna of glacial epochs > 18. a. < a cold fury > < a cold irritation > b. < a cold pogrom > < cold revolution > 19. a. < a cold glue > b. < cold composition > • - in cold blood II. 1. a. < the cold was intense > b. 2. < they groan with pain and shudder with the cold — S.T.Coleridge > 3. a. in man < to catch cold > < he has a cold > b. in domestic animals 4. • - in the cold - out in the cold III. intransitive verb < the nights were colding — Maristan Chapman > transitive verb < cold his blood with the thought of dying — John Masefield > IV. 1. < he was stopped cold > < be turned down cold > < know the answers cold > 2. < cold-hammer a bar of iron > < cold-roll steel > < cold-swage metal parts > V. < cold neutrons > VI. < a near-deadly slip … made the game too dangerous and the F.B.I. called him in from the cold — Ralph Blumenthal > also |
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