- 1大熱天（口語）
A scorcher is a day so hot it feels as if the sun is burning everything. People say “It’s a scorcher” or “What a scorcher” the way they say “What a beautiful day” — informal, even a bit cheerful while they sweat. You hear it a lot in British and Australian weather talk; Americans understand it, and they also say “a scorcher of a day.” It is not a forecast word. The weather report says “extremely hot”; your neighbour says “a scorcher.” Though actually, the word can stretch: a hit ball may be a scorcher, and some people call a very attractive person a scorcher, because the idea is “this burns.” Those extra uses are . The weather meaning is the one you will meet first.
組成From scorch (“to burn the surface”) + -er. Here -er does not mean a person whose job is to scorch. It paints the day as the thing that scorches you.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
scorchernoun/ˈskɔː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
- 1
One who, or that which, scorches.
- 2
A very hot day.
- Tomorrow will be a scorcher, so carry water and use sunscreen if you're going out.
- Meteorologists are prepping their “new record high temperature” press releases, tabloid editors are readying their ‘“phwoar, what a scorcher” headlines (while happily ignoring the climate emergency doing the scorching) and everyone else is preparing to hunker down somewhere cool until it’s all over.
- 3
ball-gamesgameshobbiesA very good goal, notably made with a very hard shot.
- What a scorcher! See the net reverberate!
- Marcos Alonso scorcher secures Chelsea nervy victory over Southampton [title]
- 4
A caustic rebuke or criticism.
- 5
datedA bad person.
- `Yes, sir - of course, sir, that's just what he said they was - 'cautions, downright scorchers' - sir, and I'm sure I don't doubt it, seeing what I know of them, and their hot-potting ways,' went on Job sadly.
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datedOne who rides a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
- “You're arrested for fast riding.” When the scorcher heard the shout He looked o'er his shoulder, And he didn't do a thing But pedal all the harder And make the welkin ring.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。