【每日一词】gelid - /'dʒɛlɪd/ adj. : extremely cold : icy, 通常用来描述非常寒冷的天气、环境,或者冷得刺骨的感觉。这个词在文学或正式语境中比较常用。
gelid
短语
Gelid Bones: 迸裂之骨 Gelid Shackles: 极寒枷锁 GELID Silent: 低转速静音风扇
gelid seas: 似冰的海水 midnightly gelid star sprinkled: 子夜的寒星
例句
The gelid wind cut through my coat, making me shiver.冰冷的风穿透了我的外套,让我打了个寒战。
We avoided swimming in the gelid waters of the mountain lake.我们避免在冰冷的山湖里游泳。
But I have to go down among the rocks the glacier left and squat at the edge of the water where a stinking pile of them lies, where one crow balances and sinks its beak into a gelid eye. 可我得下去,去到冰川时期遗留下来的石头当中,蹲在有一大堆臭死鱼的水边,一只乌鸦正颤悠悠地站在那儿啄着一只冰凉冰凉的眼。
Moss brought an uncanny, even creepy quality to the character which added to the show’s gelid mystique. —Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
Instead, most of its plasma comes from icy volcanism on Enceladus, a gelid moon that erupts water-ice slush from deep crevasses around its south pole.—Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022