Freezing

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freeze

(a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

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• One would think the night would be long enough, in this freezing silence and solitude, if one went to bed two hours hence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In winter the heat from the freezing water keeps the temperature of the surrounding higher than it would naturally be, and consequently the cold weather is less severe. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Now he's freezing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My Lady Dedlock, having conquered HER world, fell not into the melting, but rather into the freezing, mood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Six children are huddled into one bed to keep from freezing, for they have no fire. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Freezing water into ice is caused by making the molecules, and, in turn, the atoms, stick to each other. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Warnings of frosts and of freezing weather have enabled the growers of such products to protect and save large quantities of valuable plants. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The heat from this lamp would prevent the liquid from freezing, so that the meter could go on doing its duty. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Most substances have a definite melting or freezing point which never changes so long as the surrounding conditions remain the same. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• While most of us are familiar with the bursting of water pipes on a cold night, few of us realize the influence which freezing water exerts on the character of the land around us. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Towards the servants Mrs. Pryor's bearing was not uncourteous, but shy, freezing, ungenial. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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