核心畫面
Start from the real physical line: the temperature at which water stops being liquid and turns to ice. That line is the anchor. Everything else is either that exact line named as a point (freezing), or the feeling of being at or near it — cold enough that your hands hurt. The word can be a precise measurement or a complaint, and the difference is just how literally you mean it.
可以先抓住一條真實存在的界線：水不再是水、開始結成冰的那個溫度。這條線就是這個字的定錨點。其他用法要嘛是把這條線本身…更多收起
可以先抓住一條真實存在的界線：水不再是水、開始結成冰的那個溫度。這條線就是這個字的定錨點。其他用法要嘛是把這條線本身當成一個「點」來講（冰點），要嘛是在講站在這條線附近的那種體感——冷到手會痛。所以同一個字，可以是一個精確的溫度刻度，也可以是一句抱怨，差別只在你講得多字面。原始詞典資料7 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。
freezingadj/ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
- 1
Suffering or causing frost.
- 2
Very cold.
- 3
The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
- Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.
- 4
Aloof, unfriendly.
- He turned at the door of the inner office and dropped a freezing eye on the offender. "Get those letters copied before you go out to lunch, Binns," he remarked in a sufficiently loud voice.
- Jeff unconsciously reached out to touch the pewter casket, but was intercepted by the mother. She whisked his hand away with freezing politeness and said simply, "He's gone now."
freezingnoun/ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
- 1
The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
- The temp in the mountains may/can fall below freezing at this time of year.
- Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
- 2
medicinesciencesThe action of numbing with anesthetics.
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。