University economists pour cold water on the idea that the economic recovery has begun.

大学的经济学家们对经济已经开始复苏的观点泼冷水。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

We must not pour cold water on their enthusiasm.

我们不能给他们的热情浇冷水。

《新英汉大辞典》

Don't pour cold water on their optimism.

别给他们的乐观情绪泼冷水。

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In fact, there's a rabbinic image, there's a rabbinic tradition that talks about this period of time, and has God and Moses talking, and God says: Listen, between the two of us, whenever I blow hot, you blow cold, or when I pour hot water, you pour cold, and when you pour hot, I'll pour cold, and together we'll muddle through, and get through here.

事实上，这里有一个与犹太律法相关的意象，犹太律法传统,描述了这段时间中，上帝和摩西又一次谈话，上帝说：“听着，在我们两个人中间，当我吹热风，你要吹冷风，当我泼热水，你要泼冷水，当你泼热水的时候，我们泼凉水,我们将一起应付各种情形。

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Some may welcome Downing Street's decision to pour cold water on the corporation tax campaign.

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Next, she was to pour cold water over my face-still no success.

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In deciding to raise short-term interest rates by half a point, to 6.5%, on May 16th, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has clearly decided to pour cold water on America's red-hot economy.

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