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hot water

热水,热水器

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.

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Examples

  • They suggest soaking all types of feeders every other day in a sink filled with 10 cups of hot water to one cup of bleach.

  • Google is in hot water after banning the Google account of Andrew Spinks, the lead developer of the hit indie game Terraria.

  • I’ll fill up a jug with hot water and load it in the car, along with my wetsuit, still dank and a little musty from yesterday.

  • Fill two mugs with hot water and set aside while you make the cocoa.

  • Crying — on the couch, lying in bed, under hot water in the shower — is easier.

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

  • Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.

  • In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

  • Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.

  • The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.

  • Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.

  • “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.