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EE英语课堂❤️ Dog days关狗什么事
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from:《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》
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Ways to say it’s very hot
除了hot外你还会怎么吐槽大热天呢!
hot to death 热死了
1. It’s a real scorcher.
(scorcher: An extremely hot day “大热天”)
2. It’s boiling hot!
3. We’re having a heatwave!
(heatwave: a heatwave is a period of time during which the weather is much hotter than ususal “热浪”)
4. It’s like a furnace outside. (furnace 表示火炉)
5. We’re in the dog days of summer.
为什么是dog days形容热呢?
最早使用这个术语的是希腊人,很多欧洲国家用“dog days”形容北半球夏季最炎热、最不舒服的日子。 dog days 是一段邪恶的日子,“海煮开, 酒变酸,够疯狂,其他所有生物变的懒洋洋的;人生病,发烧,变得歇斯底里要发疯。”
补充:
stifling 令人窒息的
boiling 炙热的
sweltering 酷热难耐的
scorching 灼热的
It's raining fire!
在下火。
It's as hot as in a sauna!
热得像蒸桑拿。
Sweat like a pig.
全身冒汗。
The heat is killing me.
热死我啦。
It's blazing hot! I'm sweating a lot!
简直热到着火, 我出了好多汗
It's quite stuffy in here, I cannot even breathe!
这里快闷死了,我都喘不过气来了!
I'm melting.
我快融化了。
It's sticky weather! 天气闷热难受。
(sticky weather “湿热的天气)
It's so hot you can fry an egg on the stone!
天气热得都可以到石头上煎蛋了
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