in the cold

基本解釋

In the cold, dark waters of the Arctic, life abounds as it has for millions of years.
在北極圈寒冷黑暗的水域中，生命像百萬年來那樣一直繁盛。
The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.
她的想像給他博士的浪漫色彩在現(xiàn)實的冷冰冰的光照前暗淡了下去——原來他以前不過是個洗衣工。
Hoping to bond with these fisherman of bear-like proportions who beckoned me inside, I decided to leave my guide and interpreter out in the cold. At first things went smoothly.
穿得像熊那樣臃腫的漁民示意我到帳篷裡麪去，我則希望與他們呆在一起，所以決定離開導(dǎo)遊和繙譯走到外麪的嚴寒中。

A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise, that he was left out in the cold.
But the roles are reversed in the following passage, and this is where the text blows hot and cold.
但是在接下來的文章中角色互調(diào)了，這是文中描述冷熱無常的情景。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
This is, you see, also on 2 at the beginning here: I went to the cold-water flat with the boys and Dean came to the door in his shorts.
你們看，這也是在第二頁的開始：,我和男孩們?nèi)チ死渌?安穿著短褲來到門口。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選

Ms. COLLINS: (Singing) Out on the street it was raining today, homeless man stood in the cold.
NPR: Judy Collins, From Both Sides Now