Word of the Day：December 21, 2020
gelid
冷淡的；冰冷的
adjective JELL-id
Definition
: extremely cold ： icy
非常冷淡的：冰冷的
Examples
"A fleet of military aircraft and navy and merchant ships continue searching the gelid waters north of Antarctica for a Chilean Air Force cargo plane that went missing on Monday evening with 38 people on board." — Pascale Bonnefoy and Austin Ramzy, The New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
「一隊軍用飛機，海軍艦艇及船舶繼續在南極洲北部的極寒地域尋找一架智利空軍的貨運飛機，該飛機在周一晚間失蹤，並載有38人。
"Back at school, January is gelid. The roads around campus are two inches deep in slush left behind from a New Year's Day snowstorm." — Koren Zailckas, Smashed, 2005
「回到學校後，一月份還是冰冷刺骨的感覺。校園周圍的道路深處有兩英寸深的冰雪，是元旦下的暴風雪留下來的。」
Did You Know?
Gelid first appeared in English late in the 16th century, coming to our language from Latin gelidus, which ultimately derives from the noun gelu, meaning "frost" or "cold." (The noun gelatin, which can refer to an edible jelly that undergoes a cooling process as part of its formation, comes from a related Latin word: gelare, meaning "to freeze.") Gelid is used to describe anything of extremely cold temperature (as in "the gelid waters of the Arctic Ocean"), but the word can also be used figuratively to describe a person with a cold demeanor (as in "the criminal's gelid stare").
Gelid 最開始出現在英語16世紀後期，來自於拉丁語的 gelidus，最終源於名詞 gelu，意為「frost 」or「cold」（The noun gelatin, which can refer to an edible jelly that undergoes a cooling process as part of its formation,comes from a related Latin word: gelare, meaning"to freeze."「名詞 gelatin，意思是可以食用的果凍，果凍在形成時通過冷卻而凝固，來自於拉丁語：gelare ，意思是「凍結」」）Gelid 描述了為任何條件下的極冷溫度，（as in "the gelid waters of the Argtic Ocean"）但是這個詞也可用作描述一個人性格的冷淡（as in「the criminal's gelid stare「罪犯冷漠的視線」」）
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