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You can hold the picture of a pleasant low temperature — a little cold, but in a nice, refreshing way, not the kind of cold that bites. From that one feeling everything else grows: a calm mind that hasn't 'heated up' into panic or anger; a person who is unbothered (and so, 'cool'); and even a relationship that has lost its warmth and gone distant.

可以想成一種讓人舒服的低溫——有點涼,但是是清爽、宜人的那種涼,不是會咬人的冷。從這一個「涼」的感覺,其餘的意思都長更多收起可以想成一種讓人舒服的低溫——有點涼,但是是清爽、宜人的那種涼,不是會咬人的冷。從這一個「涼」的感覺,其餘的意思都長出來:一顆沒有「燒起來」變成慌張或憤怒的冷靜的心;一個不慌不亂、讓人佩服的人(於是就「很酷」);甚至一段失去了溫度、變得疏遠的關係。

原始詞典資料27 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。

Coolname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A town in El Dorado County, California, United States; named for preacher Aaron Cool.

    • The outage area continues to expand, stretching from Granite Bay, Newcastle, Loomis, and Auburn across Folsom Lake to Cool, and north through Colfax into Lake of the Pines.
  • 3

    A town in Parker County, Texas, United States.

cooladj詞源 1/kuːl/

  • 1

    Of a mildly low temperature.

    • I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.
    • The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
  • 2

    Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

    • Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
    • Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
  • 3

    Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

    • If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
  • 4

    Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

    • Be cool. There's no need to panic.
  • 5

    Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.

    • His proposals had a cool reception.
  • 6

    obsoleteCalmly audacious.

    • Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
    • In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool.
  • 7

    Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

    • Who will lend me a cool hundred.
    • But she had wrote out a little coddleshell in her own hand a day or two afore the accident, leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
  • 8

    informalKnowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.

    • […] while the coachman holding whip and reins in one hand, takes off his hat with the other, and resting it on his knees, pulls out his handkerchief, and wipes his forehead, partly because he has a habit of doing it, and partly because it's as well to shew the passengers how cool he is, and what an easy thing it is to drive four-in-hand, when you have had as much practice as he has.
    • Maggie the au pair, and Pam P. on the school bus and Billy G. with his Grateful Dead records were all deeply cool people. But they weren’t cool because they smoked. They smoked because they were cool.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    informalFashionable; trendy; hip.

    • You be nice without long hair. Now it's cool, hmm?
    • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
  • 10

    informalAll right; acceptable; good.

    • Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?
    • Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band / And my Monster Mash is the hit of the land / For you, the living, this Mash was meant too / When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you.
  • 11

    informalVery interesting or exciting.

    • I think astronomy is really cool.
  • 12

    informalFollowed by with: able to tolerate.

    • I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me.
  • 13

    informalOf a pair of people, Having good relations.

    • We're cool, right?

coolnoun詞源 1/kuːl/

  • 1

    A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.

    • in the cool of the morning
  • 2

    A calm temperament.

  • 3

    The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

coolverb詞源 2/kuːl/

  • 1

    To lose heat, to get colder.

    • I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
  • 2

    To make cooler, less warm.

    • Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
  • 3

    To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

    • Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
  • 4

    To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

    • We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
  • 5

    datedslangTo kill, murder.

    • Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
    • Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him.
  • 6

    slangTo relax, hang out.

    • Seen my homeboys coolin' way way out / Told 'em bout my mornin' cold bugged' em out
    • "What up, kid?" ¶ "Coolin'."

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