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/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
Very hot. People say this in everyday speech about the weather, about a room, or about how hot they themselves feel — it means the heat is far more than they want, not that anything is really boiling.
熱死了；超熱
核心畫面
Think of water rolling and bubbling in a pot, and then that temperature borrowed and laid over something that is nowhere near it — a street in August, a crowded bus, your own face. The word is not measuring heat; it is reporting that the heat has gone well past what the speaker wants.
可以想成鍋裡的水正在翻滾冒泡的那個溫度，被整個借過來蓋在完全不到那麼燙的東西上——八月的街、擠滿人的公車、自己的臉。…更多收起
可以想成鍋裡的水正在翻滾冒泡的那個溫度，被整個借過來蓋在完全不到那麼燙的東西上——八月的街、擠滿人的公車、自己的臉。這個字不是在量溫度，而是在說「熱得超過我能忍的範圍了」。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
boilingnoun/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
- 1
The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- 2
The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- 3
A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- 4
An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
boilingadj/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
- 1
That boils or boil.
- boiling kettle boiling oil
- 2
informalOf a thing: extremely hot or active.
- The radiator is boiling – I’m going to turn it down a bit.
- With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which now, in mid-morning, was in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
- 3
informalOf a person: feeling uncomfortably hot.
- I’m boiling – can’t we open a window?
- 4
informalOf the weather: very hot.
- It’s boiling out today!
boilingadv/ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/
- 1
Extremely
- He was boiling mad.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。