boiling
boiling — 形容詞
1. so hot that being near it or touching it feels uncomfortable or unsafe.
滾燙的
熱得幾乎碰不得
so hot that being near it or touching it feels uncomfortable or unsafe.
Aiko pulled her hand away from the boiling pan handle.
Aiko 把手從滾燙的平底鍋把手上縮了回來。
boiling + noun
By noon, the beach sand was boiling under our bare feet.
到了中午,海灘的沙在我們赤腳下變得滾燙。
be boiling for painfully hot surfaces
The tiny kitchen felt boiling after the oven had been on all morning.
烤箱開了一整個早上後,那間小廚房熱得讓人受不了。
Greta opened the car door and a boiling wave of air hit her.
Greta 一打開車門,一股滾燙的熱氣就撲到她身上。
文法句型
be + boiling
boiling + noun
用法筆記
Often describes air, rooms, metal, sand, and other things that feel painfully hot. It usually gives the speaker's impression of heat, not a scientific claim that something has reached the point where liquid bubbles.
常見錯誤
boiling — 副詞
1. used before certain adjectives to push their meaning much higher, similar to 've
非常;極其
放在少數形容詞前,加強程度
used before certain adjectives to push their meaning much higher, similar to 'very'.
The soup was boiling hot, so Noa waited before tasting it.
那碗湯非常燙,所以 Noa 先等了一下才試喝。
fixed collocation: boiling hot
By midnight, the upstairs room was still boiling hot.
到半夜時,樓上的房間還是熱得要命。
After the delay, Rashida was boiling mad with the airline staff.
班機延誤後,Rashida 對航空公司人員氣炸了。
The crowd grew boiling mad after the referee ignored the foul.
裁判沒吹那個犯規後,觀眾變得非常火大。
文法句型
boiling + adjective
用法筆記
Mostly informal and tied to a small set of adjectives, especially 'hot' and 'mad'. It is much less flexible than 'very', so combinations like 'boiling useful' or 'boiling interesting' sound wrong.