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 frosty ['frɒsti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 霜冻的, 严寒的, 冷淡的

  1. Frosty windows make great surfaces for children to draw on.
    有霜的窗户是孩子们画画的好地方。
  2. The air was frosty.
    天气严寒。
  3. Extremely cold; frosty.
    严寒的特别冷;冰冻的


frosty
frostier, frostiest
[ adj ]
  1. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain

  2. <adj.all>
    a frigid greeting
    got a frosty reception
    a frozen look on their faces
    a glacial handshake
    icy stare
    wintry smile
  3. covered with frost

  4. <adj.all>
    a frosty glass
    hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost
  5. pleasantly cold and invigorating

  6. <adj.all>
    crisp clear nights and frosty mornings
    a nipping wind
    a nippy fall day
    snappy weather


Frosty \Frost"y\, a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.]
1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to
congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.

3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or
courage. --Johnson.

4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white;
gray-haired; as, a frosty head. --Shak.

  1. Hong Kong equities have proved resilient in the face of China's frosty response to Mr Christopher Patten's democracy proposals. Local banking profits remain buoyant.
  2. They (traders) just go there to sign the contract so that the Chinese side can have a figure to give to the government." The Canton Trade Fair began in 1957, when Communist China had frosty relations with the Western world.
  3. 'The frosty investment climate has grown more severe,' Mr Schoser said.
  4. Do these frosty comments signal the demise of the service tax as a budget-balancing tool?
  5. "Let's make sure this revolution keeps on flourishing, but let us not allow anyone to smear dirt on its peaceful face," playwright Vaclav Havel said, speaking from a tiny balcony above a sea of faces and flags filled like sails in the frosty wind.
  6. But Shanker was never enamored of Reagan's education policies, and his relations with Bennett have turned frosty of late.
  7. But relations between Mr Spring and Mr John Bruton, the Fine Gael leader, are described as frosty. Without an early resolution of the political uncertainty, however, progress on the peace process is likely to be impaired.
  8. The Gorbachev-Deng summit brought together Soviet and Chinese leaders for the first time since a frosty encounter between Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung in 1959.
  9. Current parliamentary strengths would give a narrow arithmetic majority in the 166-seat legislature. The possibility is discounted by some politicians who point to Mr Spring's frosty relations with Mr John Bruton, the Fine Gael leader.
  10. It was just a year ago that de Klerk assumed the South African presidency, a time when U.S.-South African relations were still frosty because of the negligible progress toward ending white rule.
  11. All those politically inspired rescue schemes which hit the headlines after Christmas have gone quiet, though to be fair to building societies attempts to persuade borrowers to become overnight tenants have met with a frosty response.
  12. The surgeons' response has been predictably frosty.
  13. One reason why boat people now receive frosty receptions is the widely held view that many are fleeing Vietnam not for fear of persecution but to improve their economic conditions.
  14. Fear of a frosty Florida helped spark a rally of futures prices for frozen concentrated orange juice Monday on the Cotton Exchange in New York.
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