核心畫面

Picture the thing whose whole job is to take heat away and keep it away — a box packed with ice, a machine blowing cold air into a room. Cooler is built from cool plus -er: the thing that does the cooling.

可以想成:有一樣東西存在的理由就是把熱帶走、讓溫度保持在低點——塞滿冰塊的箱子,或是往房間吹冷風的機器。cooler更多收起可以想成:有一樣東西存在的理由就是把熱帶走、讓溫度保持在低點——塞滿冰塊的箱子,或是往房間吹冷風的機器。cooler 是 cool 加上 -er 組成的,字面就是「負責讓東西變冷的那個」。

From the picture

讓房間變涼的機器

把「讓東西變冷」從一個箱子放大到整個房間:這次冷的不是飲料,是空氣。角色沒變,只是規模和對象換了。

air conditioner (American) · noun · B1

American English for a machine that cools the air in a room; an air conditioner.

冷氣機(美式)

固定說法:關起來的地方

把「被放進一個冷冷的箱子裡出不來」拿來說坐牢。這是俚語的比喻,只在固定形式裡出現。

prison (slang) · noun · B2

Informal word for prison. Usually used as the cooler.

牢房;監獄(俚語)

Also in this word

drink-cooling container · noun · A2

A container that cools drinks or keeps them cold.

保冷容器;冰桶

portable cold box (American) · noun · A2

American English for a coolbox: a box you carry to keep food and drinks cold outdoors.

保冷箱(美式)

原始詞典資料14 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。

Coolername

  • 1

    A surname from German.

coolernoun/ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    Anything which cools.

    • If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case.
  • 2

    An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.

    • While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan.
    • Two women were found unresponsive in a car along with the likely culprit – four coolers of dry ice – Friday morning in Pierce County, Washington, CNN affiliate KOMO reports.
  • 3

    A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.

    • He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.
  • 4

    A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.

    • They served wine coolers in the afternoon.
  • 5

    samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)

  • 6

    slangA prison.

    • About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap.
  • 7

    slangA bouncer or doorman.

  • 8

    card-gamesgamblinggamesA cold deck.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    card-gamespokerA loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.

  • 10

    obsoleteslangA final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.

  • 11

    archaicslangA cooling swim or dip in the water.

    • That night this ungainly urchin, taking a cooler in one of the big irrigation canals, got laid hold of by an alligator and raised the most unearthly screech […]

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。