Cold - 英语听力.mp3

[00:00.10]Now, the VOA Special English program
[00:16.00]WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
[00:18.78]Cold weather has a great effect
[00:23.32]on how our minds and our bodies work.
[00:26.82]Maybe that is why there are
[00:30.20]so many expressions
[00:31.81]that use the word cold.
[00:34.53]For centuries,
[00:36.07]the body's blood has been linked
[00:38.96]closely with the emotions.
[00:42.05]People who show no human emotions
[00:45.68]or feelings, for example,
[00:47.80]are said to be cold-blooded.
[00:50.89]Cold-blooded people act
[00:54.22]in cruel ways.
[00:56.39]They may do brutal things to others,
[00:59.82]and not by accident.
[01:03.33]For example, a newspaper says
[01:07.84]the police are searching
[01:09.95]for a cold-blooded killer.
[01:13.05]The killer murdered someone,
[01:15.87]not in self-defense,
[01:18.23]or because he was reacting
[01:20.56]to anger or fear.
[01:22.57]He seemed to kill for no reason,
[01:25.95]and with no emotion,
[01:28.83]as if taking someone's life
[01:31.67]meant nothing.
[01:33.42]Cold can affect other parts of the body.
[01:38.31]The feet, for example.
[01:40.44]Heavy socks can warm your feet,
[01:45.02]if your feet are really cold.
[01:47.34]But there is an expression
[01:49.96]-- to get cold feet
[01:52.68]-- that has nothing to do
[01:54.65]with cold or your feet.
[01:57.64]The expression means being afraid
[02:02.11]to do something you had decided to do.
[02:06.04]For example, you agree
[02:09.08]to be president of an organization.
[02:11.66]But then you learn that
[02:14.69]all the other officers have resigned.
[02:17.17]All the work of the organization
[02:20.72]will be your responsibility.
[02:23.48]You are likely to get cold feet
[02:27.08]about being president
[02:29.29]when you understand the situation.
[02:31.80]Cold can also affect your shoulder.
[02:35.77]You give someone the cold shoulder
[02:39.56]when you refuse to speak to them.
[02:42.90]You treat them in a distant, cold way.
[02:46.99]The expression probably comes
[02:49.87]from the physical act of
[02:52.04]turning your back toward someone,
[02:54.92]instead of speaking
[02:56.86]to him face-to-face.
[02:59.10]You may give a cold shoulder
[03:02.02]to a friend who has not
[03:04.56]kept a promise he made to you.
[03:06.98]Or, to someone who has lied
[03:10.67]about you to others.
[03:12.48]A cold fish is not a fish.
[03:17.17]It is a person.
[03:18.90]But it is a person
[03:21.37]who is unfriendly,
[03:23.13]unemotional and shows
[03:25.34]no love or warmth.
[03:27.57]A cold fish does not offer
[03:30.91]much of himself to anyone.
[03:33.40]Someone who is a cold fish
[03:37.11]could be cold-hearted.
[03:39.65]Now a cold-hearted person
[03:42.34]is someone who has no sympathy.
[03:45.12]Several popular songs
[03:48.12]in recent years were
[03:50.66]about cold-hearted men
[03:53.00]or cold-hearted women,
[03:55.34]who without feeling,
[03:57.27]broke the hearts of their lovers.
[04:00.28]Out in the cold
[04:02.81]is an expression often heard.
[04:05.44]It means not getting something
[04:08.71]that everybody else got.
[04:10.51]A person might say that everybody
[04:14.10]but him got a pay raise,
[04:16.83]that he was left out in the cold.
[04:20.66]And it is not a pleasant place to be.
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[04:36.49]This VOA Special English program,
[04:40.39]WORDS AND THEIR STORIES,
[04:43.17]was written by Marilyn Rice Christiano.
[04:46.52]Maurice Joyce was the narrator.
[04:49.41]I'm Shirley Griffith.