boiling hot

短语

滚烫

发音

AU

别名

boiling-hot

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boiling, hot: very hot in a way that involves boiling of water or other liquids.

    Near-synonyms: scalding hot, piping hot

    Ouch! Don't sip your tea quite yet — it's still boiling hot!

  2. 2.

    Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature).

    习语

    Near-synonyms: scalding hot, piping hot, smoking hot

    Back then, if you were a regular person living in the Deep South, you were going to be boiling hot all summer long, no two ways about it — nobody but rich people had central air at home back then.