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A hot-blooded person has very strong feelings — anger, love, jealousy — and those feelings are hard to hold back. The picture is that their blood runs hot.
A hot-blooded person hot-blooded的人 has very strong feelings感情非常強烈 anger, love, jealousy像憤怒、愛、嫉妒 and those feelings are hard to hold back而且很難壓下來 The picture背後的畫面 is that their blood runs hot是他們的血在發燙。
It can praise passion (a hot-blooded romance) or warn that someone flares up fast. It is a vivid, everyday kind of word, more at home in stories and talk than in a lab report.
It can praise passion它可以是稱讚熱情 a hot-blooded romance像hot-blooded romance（熱烈的戀情） or warn that someone flares up fast也可以是提醒某人一點就爆 It is a vivid, everyday kind of word這是個生動、日常的字 more at home in stories and talk比較常出現在故事和口語裡 than in a lab report而不是實驗報告裡。
Though actually, in Taiwan 熱血 often means brave and full of fire for a good cause; English hot-blooded is closer to “the feelings are strong and not tidy,” which may be love or temper, not only .
Though actually不過其實 in Taiwan在台灣 熱血 often means常常是指 brave and full of fire for a good cause為了好的理由勇敢又充滿熱情 English hot-blooded英文的hot-blooded is closer to比較接近 "the feelings are strong and not tidy"「感情很強烈、不整齊」 which may be love or temper可能是愛，也可能是脾氣 not only heroism不只是英雄氣概。
The animal sense ( creatures) is a different use; this meaning is about people and feelings.
The animal sense動物上的意思 warm-blooded creatures像warm-blooded creatures（溫血動物） is a different use是不同的用法 this meaning這個意思 is about people and feelings說的是人和感情。
組成hot + blooded. Blood here is a picture for feelings, not the liquid in your veins.
同家族的字
- cold-bloodedthe opposite picture: calm, or cruel without feeling
- hot-temperedshares the “hot” picture, but points at anger only
原始詞典資料4 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。
hot-bloodedadj
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Easily angered or excited.
- So much stronger and hotter-blooded than the motive of gain is that other motive, that we call racial arrogance and lust of domination when displayed in Europe, but describe more indulgently when our countrymen act upon it in Africa.
- Amphitryon said finally: “Creon says that he was the unwitting cause of Menoeceus’ death. I had this from Heniocha, in whom he confided his secret.” / “How could that be?” Heracles asked. / “Creon was then about the same age that you are now, and hot-blooded. At least, hotter-blooded than he is now.”
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Having strong sexual urges; easily aroused.
- Anyway, Vincent admired the monks for their apparently cheerful stoicism; and, in an abstract, theoretical fashion, he envied them, even as he almost immediately instinctively realized that he could never become one of them. Or could he? Many of the monks, quite obviously, were younger and presumably hotter-blooded than he. / The basic difficulty, the possibly insuperable impediment, as in some other artificially contrived bizarrely heroic situations, Vincent decided, was sex – or, to be exact, no sex.
- The copper widow was the most hot-blooded woman I have ever known. She openly rejected all our women. She would scarcely speak to them. She lived only for our men. She talked easily and intelligently with them or rubbed up against them. A few men were almost always near her. She drew them to her like a bitch in heat.
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Light-bodied and lively in temperament, with high speed and endurance.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologySynonym of warm-blooded.
- For my own part, judging from experiments ranging from the cold-blooded to the hottest-blooded animals—from the alligator to the common fowl—I am constrained to say, that after decapitation, the sensational phenomena and voluntary motion are far more strongly indicated in the headless body, than in the separated head.
- By taking little or no exercise, in passing most of the time in sleep, and residing in a tropical climate, or in a temperate one during the hottest summer months, while the experiment lasts, it will be found that the system needs but little food, the waste of the tissues being reduced to a minimum, and there being but little need for the heat produced on account of the high temperature of the surroundings. By living in this way, man can transform himself almost into a cold-blooded or hot-blooded hibernating animal.
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。