hot-water bottle
热水瓶,热水袋,热水壶,水壶
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- : a receptacle, now usually made of rubber, designed to be filled with hot water, used for warming a bed or parts of the body
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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.