a hot temper; a hot topic; a hot new book; a hot love affair; a hot argument 急躁的脾气；热门的话题；热门的新书；热烈的爱情；激烈的争论 My mother usually cooks a hot meal in the evening.
Pat Choate, who is the author of Hot Property, abook on the theft of intellectual property, argues that if the new patent regimen had existed when corporations like Apple and Microsoft first got going, they might never have made it out of the little leagues.