The water was cold but I took a shower anyway.

水很冷，不过我还是冲了个淋浴。

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I refused the last but washed down the fruit and vegetables with clear, cold water from a hollowed gourd.

我拒绝了最后一个，但我用一个空葫芦里的清冷水把水果和蔬菜洗了下去。

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Cold Water: It may not be fun, but a cold shower or cold bath will also help in your recovery.

冷水浴：这也许不会太好受，不过冷水浴也能帮助你恢复精力。

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For example, you want to buy a new car, because the old one has some problems But your wife throws cold water on the idea, because a computer costs too much.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

But the snow does melt. Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers -- the Gila River,the Green River, the Little Colorado,the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison Rivers.

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I'd forgone the wine, but cold water freshly filtered from a nearby stream was just as sweet.

NPR: Forget The Granola: Camp Cooking Goes Gourmet

The heat exchangers and pipework required to make a 10MW plant already exist, but the 100MW facility will need a pipe that is not only 1km long (in order to reach the cold water at depth) but ten metres in diameter (in order to bring enough of that cold water to the surface).

ECONOMIST: Ocean heat may be used to generate electricity

She had taken a solemn vow of chastity since then, like one of her made-up childhood rituals of lying in freezing cold water, but to someone with her natural generosity it was a heartless, bitter thing.

ECONOMIST: Charis Wilson