词语掌故：与"Cold"有关的短语(2/2)
概述：cold总是与冷联系在一起，而与它相关的短语貌似也带有这种感情色彩。Hints:
face-to-face
翻译：lahmmsc
校对：forever秋懵
组长：jushua
答疑：jushuahttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201201/201201260851031742335.mp3Cold can also affect your shoulder.
You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them. You treat them in a distant, cold way. The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face-to-face. You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you. Or, to someone who has lied about you to others.
A cold fish is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone.
Someone who is a cold fish could be cold-hearted. Now a cold-hearted person is someone who has no sympathy. Several popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feeling, broke the hearts of their lovers.
Out in the cold is an expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise, that he was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be.冷会影响肩部（shoulder）的运动。
当你拒绝和别人对话，你会冷待他人（give the cold shoulder）。你以疏离、冷漠的态度待之。这个短语的来源可能是：你并不直接与人对话，而是转过身去的这种肢体行为。如果你的朋友违背了他对你的诺言，或者其他人讲述你的是非，你就会冷待他（give the cold shoulder）。
“A cold fish”的意思是冷漠的人，和鱼并没有关系。这是一个不友好，毫无感情，没有爱心，不知冷热的人。冷漠的人（a cold fish）并不会为他人付出太多。
冷漠之人(a cold fish)大多冷石心肠(cold-hearted)。冷石心肠的人(cold-hearted person)是指没有同情心的人。最近几年，有几首流行歌曲讲述无情地伤害爱人的冷石心肠的男女 (cold-hearted men or colder-hearted women)，
“被冷落（out in the cold）”也是一个常见短语。它是指得不到其他人得到的事物。当其他人都得到了奖赏，只有一个人没有的时候，那就可以说他“被冷落（out in the cold）”了。这并不是愉快的境地。
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