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冬天的英语表达只会说“cold”?那可就out了!

The weather is cold.天冷了。冬季很冷,冷到什么程度呢?除了“cold”,我们还可以怎样形容冷?请看下面的句子:

It’s quite/awfully/severely cold.

天真冷/天太冷了/天气非常冷。

例句:

It is biting/bitterly cold.

天冷得厉害。

It’s really piercing cold.

天冷得刺骨。

It’s freezing cold.

天寒地冻。

一种表达方法是在cold前加上修饰语,表示冷的程度,上述的:

quite(相当)

awfully(非常)

severely(严重地)

biting(刺痛的)

bitterly(残酷地)

freezing(冰冻的)

都加深了冷的程度。所以,除了干干地说一句“cold”,我们还可以加上这些修饰语。

下面一组句子并没有使用cold,而是用其他的单词或短语来表明天气严寒。看看哪一句适合你的城市吧!

It cooled down.

天变凉了。

It became very chilly.

天气很冷了。

It is beginning to feel like winter.

开始有冬天的感觉了。

The outside is icy.

外面冰冷。

It is frigid.

天气很寒冷。

The temperature dropped very low this evening.

晚上气温降得很低。

It’s freezing outside.

外面天寒地冻。

这些句子中都没有”cold”一词,但说起来更加生动,描述性增强。我们可以根据实际天气情况选择这些表达方法。

cool down

冷却,平静下来

例句:

We have to cool the soup down to make the dish.

做这道菜得先让汤冷却。

It was not easy for her to cool down after that argument.

争吵之后,她平静下来可不太容易。

chilly 寒冷的,

例句:

It was a chilly evening.

那是个寒冷的夜晚。

冬天的英语表达只会说“cold”?那可就out了!

How do you feel?你感觉如何?天寒地冻,人自然不好受。立于寒风之中,你会有怎样的感受?

I was freezing to death.

今天冻死我了。

She shivered because of the cold.

她冷得发抖。

I have goose bumps all over in the cold wind.

寒风中冻得我浑身起鸡皮疙瘩。

I am frostbitten.

我生冻疮了。

Notes: to death 表示“极度,到极点”,

例句:

The soldiers would rather fight to death than surrender.

士兵们宁愿战斗到底也决不投降。

shiver 既可作名词,又可作动词,表示“颤抖,打战,战栗”,

例句:

She was shivering like a leaf sitting there.

她坐在那抖得像风中的树叶。

A shiver of joy passed through her stomach when she heard the news.

听到这个消息,一种愉快的战栗传到她的胃里。

goose bumps

鸡皮疙瘩

frostbitten

冻伤的,使冻伤

例句:

His frostbitten fingers look quite scary.

他冻伤的手指看着很吓人。

冬天的英语表达只会说“cold”?那可就out了!

How do we conquer the coldness?我们如何战胜寒冷?战胜寒冷的第一法宝自然是多穿点。

例句:

She bundled up.

她穿得暖暖的。

bundle up 原意是“捆扎…”,在这里是“穿暖”的意思,用衣服把自己裹起来可不就是穿暖吗?

例句:

We need to bundle up against the cold.

我们必须穿得暖暖的去抵御寒冷。

第二个法宝就是多运动。冬天一下雪,我们就可以堆雪人,打雪仗啦!

It snowed heavily.

雪下得很大。

Snowflakes are fluttering in the air.

雪花在空中飘扬。

We had snowfalls throughout the week.

雪整整下了一周。

It sleeted/snowed with rain.

今天雨夹雪。

The heavy snow tied up traffic.

大雪阻碍了交通。

We are snowed in to stay in the house for the whole day.

我们被大雪困住了,在屋里待了一整天。

Let's have a snowball fight.

我们去打雪仗吧。

They want to make/build a big snowman.

他们想堆个大雪人。

I want to ski/get on the slopes/hit the slopes.

我想去滑雪。

I enjoyed the game so much that I lost track of time.

我玩得太尽兴,都忘记了时间。

flutter

飘动

sleet

雨夹雪

tie up

阻碍(交通等)

例句:

The traffic was tied up by the the accident for a few hours.

这场事故让交通阻塞了几个小时。

snow in

被雪封住(困住)

例句:

They were snowed in the village for three days.

他们被大雪堵在村里三天。

make/build a snowman

堆雪人

get on/hit the slopes

可形象地表示“滑雪”

lose track of

失去联系,不能跟上

例句:

They lost track of each other because of the war.

他们因为这场战争而失去彼此的联系。

Lose track of time

忘记时间。(弄乱时间,也就是忘记时间)

冬天的英语表达只会说“cold”?那可就out了!

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