It’s freezing in this house. Can’t I turn on the heating?
房子里冷极了,我不可以开暖气吗?
We were freezing cold in the tent last night.
昨晚我们在帐篷里都冻僵了。
2below the temperature at which water turns to ice 冰点以下的,冰冻的
freezing fog
冰雾
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freezing• How much longer do we have to wait out her? I'm freezing.• The little children sat in rows in the freezingclassroom.• a freezing cold day in January• The river is freezing cold this time of year.• Supportersqueued for tickets all night in freezing conditions.• Close the window - it's freezing in here.• It's absolutely freezing in the basement.• My flimsyjacket was inadequate for the freezingJapaneseweather.• Can't we go inside? It's freezing out here.• His friends pulled him from the freezing water.
freezing cold• And of course, it's freezing cold.• He said Minneapolis did a wonderful job in 1992, despite the freezing cold.• Wheat prices rallied as concernsspread that freezing cold and severewind in the Plains states could damage the wintercrop.• How freezing cold it was, remember that we went to Walden Pond?• Old Sallylay in bed in a freezing cold room.• She was freezing cold, she realized.• A delicate plant, the Pinot Noir is difficult to nurture through the freezing cold winters of Champagne.
above/below freezing• It should show frost when outside temperatures are below freezing.• It roots out vines, truffles for lemontrees painfully heated by charcoal to three degreesabove freezing.• When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark.• Thanks to the warminginfluence of the GulfStream, the climate is also mild, temperatures rarely dropping much below freezing.• And when the temperature goes much below freezing, the EV1 barely goes at all.• Temperatures remained below freezing during the afternoon.• The snow may crust at night, due to outwardradiation, even thought the air temperature remains well above freezing point.• Temperatures had, for several days, been near 00F at night, and it was well below freezing now.• Yet it was not really cold here; the temperature was well above freezing point.
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freezing• A few rainsqualls perhaps, but the temperature was well abovefreezing.