He used to be a soldier in the British army, where he had special training for fighting in very cold weather.
他曾是英国军队的一名士兵,在那里他接受了严寒天气下作战的特殊训练。
He found the snake curled up under the kitchen sink where the hot-water pipe fed into the faucet and dishwasher, but it was all but inanimate, as cold and slick as a garden hose left out in the frost.
他发现它蜷缩在厨房的洗碗池下面,哪里有流经水笼头和洗碗机的热水管,尽管如此,蛇还是几乎冻僵了,就像寒冷天气中,被遗忘在田园里用来浇水的软管一样,冰冷光滑,毫无生气。
"Where am I? Who are you?" His voice is small and high, and echoes a little off the cold stone.
“我在哪儿?你是谁?”他的声音又轻又尖,回荡在冰冷的石头间。
For more than a decade, planetary scientists have seen tantalizing hints of water ice at the bottom of these cold craters where the sun never shines.
十多年来行星科学家们已经发现了一些迹象,提示在那些太阳永远也照不到的寒冷月坑底部有结冰。而这些萦绕于心的种种迹象,让科学家们欲罢不能。
Obama spoke in Iowa, where he won his first contest on a cold January night.
奥巴马在爱奥华州发表演说,那里是他在1月的一个寒冷夜晚首战得胜的地方。
A cold restore is a restore where the database server is not available and thus the sysutils database cannot be accessed.
冷还原是在数据库不可用且无法访问sysutils数据库的情况下进行的还原。
But until then I would rather climb away, not wait for the last piece of ice to melt, but climb into the airless cold of outer space where I too can be a witness to what happens next.
不过,在那之前,我宁愿攀升,不等最后一片冰融化,就爬上空气稀薄、寒冷的外太空。在那里,我也能成为目击随后发生事情的见证人。
There's the small corner store, just a quick bike ride down one street and up another, where I can get an ice-cold soda in a glass bottle with the red metal cap.
在那街角有一间小小的商店,就在骑车从一条街转进另一条街的地方。在那儿可以买到一瓶冰冻汽水,玻璃瓶,红色的金属盖子。
The snows fell in polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries.
这些雪花落在极地或寒冷的山上,仅有少量融化或根本不融 化,这样经过许多年或许多世纪后积累了巨大的深度。
The cold, dark climate, where doors are bolted and curtains drawn, provides a perfect setting for crime writing.
阴冷的气候,门已插好、窗帘已放下,这都为犯罪小说提供了完美的条件。
The planet is in the "Goldilocks zone" of space around a star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to form.
这颗行星幸运的位于其恒星附近的“可居住带”,地表温度适中,这使液体水的形成成为了可能。
Such a planet would fall into the so-called "Goldilocks zone" (neither too hot nor too cold) where the interesting chemistry should happen.
这样的一颗行星就会处于所谓的“适居带”(不会太热也不会太冷),在那里,有趣的化学反应有可能会出现。
Regent Street is busy on a cold Friday afternoon, but the most favoured shops are those selling cheap goods, such as Poundland, where everything costs just 1 pound ($1.44).
在一个寒冷周五的中午,摄政街人来人往,但出售廉价物品的店铺才是最受欢迎的。比如在Poundland,每件商品仅需1英镑(1.44美元)。
For example this one of a kind citrus may be planted in cold places where temperatures descend many degrees under 0.
例如,这种柑橘可以在零下很多度的寒冷地方种植。
Exoplanet hunters announced a new world orbiting in its dim star's habitable zone, the not-too-hot, not-too-cold region where liquid water is stable and life could potentially find a foothold.
太阳系外行星搜索者宣布发现了一个新行星,环绕其遥远恒星的可居住带运行,这一区域既不太热,也不太冷地区有稳定的液态水,有可能成为生命的一个立足之地。
This is called emotional contagion — the psychological phenomenon where people "catch" feelings from one another like they would a cold.
这也被称为情感感染,这是一种心理现象,人们会像得感冒一样被他人的情绪感染。
He was in Dresden, not Berlin where the action was, and probably would have been only a bit player in the Le Carré version of the cold war.
他是在德累斯顿而不是柏林工作,在柏林进行的是lecarre的冷战。
Nicole lived on a farm where cocks were used as alarm clocks, and coal was burned when it was cold in the winter.
妮科尔住在一个农场里,那里公鸡被当作闹钟,冬天冷的时候烧煤。
He followed them to a nearby apartment building, where he found a woman shivering and wet in the March cold and took her to a shelter.
沿着声音的方向,他走到附近一座公寓,看见一个妇女浑身是水,在三月初的冷风里瑟瑟发抖,他把她带到庇护场地。
Liu's husband even developed a program for her to "bully" him where she could choose from a list of things to do to make fun of him, such as tickling him or putting her ice-cold feet on his stomach.
刘菊列的丈夫甚至编了一个软件来让她“欺负”自己,她可以用这个软件从列表里选择一些事来捉弄他,例如给他挠痒痒、或者把自己冰冷的贴到他肚皮上取暖。
If you thought it was cold where you are at the moment then a visit to the Russian village of Oymyakon might just change your mind.
如果你觉得你现在所处的地方十分寒冷,那么到俄罗斯的奥伊·米亚康村庄走一走,你或许会改变看法。
In areas where the night temps are too cold or conditions don't permit them to be outside year round, a heated greenhouse or indoor accommodations are necessary.
在夜晚温度过冷的地区,不允许他们被常年在外饲养,一个加热温室或室内设施是必要的。
Although many living in cold regions would welcome the global-warming effect of a warmer summer, few would cheer the arrival of the subsequent tropical diseases, especially where had been none.
尽管很多生活在冰冷地区的有些人可能会喜欢因全球变暖所带来的更为温暖的夏天,但是没有多少人会为亚热带疾病而欢呼,特别是那些从来没有过的地方。
Visits to really remote places are seldom enjoyable, as it did in the case of my wife on a tour to the Balkans where she received the cold shoulder.
到真正偏僻地方去旅游并不是一件愉快的事情,就像我妻子在一次巴尔干半岛的周游所发现的那样,在那里她受到了冷遇。
Visits to really remote places are seldom enjoyable, as it did in the case of my wife on a tour to the Balkans where she received the cold shoulder.
到真正偏僻地方去旅游并不是一件愉快的事情,就像我妻子在一次巴尔干半岛的周游所发现的那样,在那里她受到了冷遇。
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