cool

• adj. 涼爽的；冷靜的；出色的
• vt. 使…冷卻；使…平靜下來
• vi. 變涼；平息
• n. 涼爽；涼爽的空氣
• adv. 冷靜地
• n. (Cool)人名；(法)科爾；(英)庫爾

來自*gel, 冷，詞源同cold, jelly.

cool

cool: [OE] Cool comes from the same source as cold, namely Indo-European *gel-, *gol- (from which English also gets congeal, gel, and jelly). The Germanic descendants of this Indo- European base were *kal-, *kōl-. From these were derived the Germanic adjective *kōluz, which passed into Old English as cōl. Its use for ‘fashionable, hip’ is mid-20th-century, but its nonchalant application to large sums of money is of surprisingly long standing: ‘I just made a couple of bets with him, took up a cool hundred, and so went to the King’s Arms’, John Vanbrugh and Colly Cibber, The Provok’d Husband 1728.
=> cold, congeal, gel, jelly

cool (adj.)

Old English col "not warm" (but usually not as severe as cold), also, of persons, "unperturbed, undemonstrative," from Proto-Germanic *koluz (cognates: Middle Dutch coel, Dutch koel, Old High German kuoli, German kühl "cool," Old Norse kala "be cold"), from PIE root *gel- "cold, to freeze" (see cold (adj.)).

Applied since 1728 to large sums of money to give emphasis to amount. Meaning "calmly audacious" is from 1825. Slang use for "fashionable" is 1933, originally Black English; modern use as a general term of approval is from late 1940s, probably from bop talk and originally in reference to a style of jazz; said to have been popularized in jazz circles by tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Related: Coolly.

cool (n.)

c. 1400, "coldness, coolness," from cool (adj.). Meaning "one's self-control, composure" (the thing you either keep or lose) is from 1966.

cool (v.)

Old English colian, "to lose warmth," also figuratively, "to lose ardor," from the root of cool (adj.). Meaning "to cause to lose warmth" is from late 14c. Related: Cooled; cooling.

1. Northbridge is a cool, calculating and clever criminal who could strike again.

諾思布裏奇是個頭腦冷靜、詭計多端、陰險狡詐的罪犯，他可能還會犯案。

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2. She made a fanning motion, pretending to cool herself off.

她做了個扇風的動作，假裝想讓自己涼快一點。

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3. In warm weather, you should wear clothing that is cool and comfortable.

在熱天裏，應該穿涼快舒適的衣服。

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4. All I had to do was be halfway cool.

我要做的隻是保持適度的冷靜。

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5. Columbia recently resigned the band for a cool $30 million.

哥倫比亞唱片公司最近以3,000萬美元的高價再次簽下這個樂隊。

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