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  • Conjugation : past  cooled ; pp  cooled ; ing  cooling
  • Derivatives : n  coolness ; adj  coolish ; adv  coolly ; adv  coolly
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

cool [kuːl]
  1. 1. adjective [+water, breeze, evening, place] 凉的
  2. 2. adjective [+clothes] (light) 凉爽
  3. 3. adjective (calm, unemotional) 冷静
  4. 4. adjective (unfriendly) 冷淡
  5. 5. adjective [inf] (good) 顶呱呱
  6. 6. adjective (fashionable) 酷的
  7. 7. vt. 使变凉
  8. 8. vi. 冷下来
  9. 9. noun [inf] to keep/lose one's cool 保持冷静/失去自制激动起来
    it's quite cool today
    今天挺凉
    to keep sth cool
    保持某物的凉度
    (that's) cool!
    [inf] 再好不过
    a cool two million dollars
    [inf] 整整两百万美元
  10. 10. vt. 用法参见 cold

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

cool [kul] [kuːl]
  1. 1. adjective 凉的,微冷的
    Yesterday was a cool day.
    昨天天气凉爽
  2. 2. adjective 凉快的,凉爽的;使人感到凉爽
    cool clothes
    凉快的衣服
  3. 3. adjective 冷静的,镇静的镇静自若的,沉着
    cool in an emergency
    在紧急时刻镇静自若
  4. 4. adjective 节制的;(音乐绘画等)缺乏感情激情的;(爵士乐及其演奏者)故作冷漠的,(爵士乐音乐柔和的;压抑感情的
    cool jazz
    缺乏激情的爵士音乐
  5. 5. adjective 不动感情的平心静气的;不带偏见
  6. 6. adjective 冷漠的,冷淡的;无动于衷的;不热心
    a cool manner
    冷淡的态度
  7. 7. adjective 厚颜无耻的;大胆的无礼
  8. 8. adjective 颜色)给人凉感的,寒色的(如蓝、绿、灰等)
  9. 9. adjective 数额等)不折不扣的,整整的;不虚报
    He won a cool thousand dollars.
    他赢了整整一千美元。
  10. 10. adjective 令人激动的;极好的,极妙的,出色
    a real cool comic
    一个真正的、出色的喜剧演员
  11. 11. adjective 没问题的;满意
  12. 12. adjective 引起心理上或精神上高尚反应
  13. 13. adverb 冷静地;冷淡
  14. 14. noun 凉,凉快凉爽凉快地方、时间东西部分
  15. 15. noun 放松冷静态度平静镇静沉着
  16. 16. noun 超然态度自我抑制自制抑制
  17. 17. vi. 变凉冷却下来冷静下来平静下来;(怒气等)平息失去热情变得缺乏激情
  18. 18. vt. 使凉快;使冷却给以凉快感觉
  19. 19. vt. 使冷静;使平静下来;使失去热情(或兴趣
  20. 20. vt. 放慢(或减少)…的增长(或活动
  21. 21. adjective 害羞的;镇定的;不拘束的(参见keep one's cool,lose one's cool)
  22. 22. adjective 很好的;优秀
    a real cool comic
    一个真正的、出色的喜剧演员
  23. 23. adjective 音乐圆润的;流畅的
  24. 24. vi. 死亡;在死后身体变冷(医学委婉语)

Collins English-English Dictionary

cool [kuːl]
  1. 1. adj moderately cold
    a cool day
  2. 2. adj comfortably free of heat
    a cool room
  3. 3. adj producing a pleasant feeling of coldness
    a cool shirt
  4. 4. adj able to conceal emotion; calm
    a cool head
  5. 5. adj lacking in enthusiasm, affection, cordiality, etc
    a cool welcome
  6. 6. adj calmly audacious or impudent
  7. 7. adj [informal] (esp of numbers, sums of money, etc) without exaggeration; actual
    a cool ten thousand
  8. 8. adj (of a colour) having violet, blue, or green predominating; cold
  9. 9. adj (of jazz) characteristic of the late 1940s and early 1950s, economical and rhythmically relaxed
  10. 10. adj [informal] sophisticated or elegant, esp in an unruffled way
  11. 11. adj [informal] excellent; marvellous
  12. 12. adv [not standard] in a cool manner; coolly
  13. 13. n coolness
    the cool of the evening
  14. 14. n [slang] calmness; composure (esp in the phrases keep or lose one's cool)
  15. 15. n [slang] unruffled elegance or sophistication
  16. 16. vb [usually foll by down or off] to make or become cooler
  17. 17. vb [usually foll by down or off] to lessen the intensity of (anger or excitement) or (of anger or excitement) to become less intense; calm down
  18. 18. vb See also cool out
  19. 19. vb [Etymology] Old English col; related to Old Norse kolna, Old High German kuoli; see cold, chill

Examples

cool clothes
凉快的衣服 cool
cool in an emergency
在紧急时刻镇静自若 cool
cool jazz
缺乏激情的爵士音乐 cool
a cool manner
冷淡的态度 cool
He won a cool thousand dollars.
他赢了整整一千美元。 cool
a real cool comic
一个真正的、出色的喜剧演员 cool
cool for July
就七月份而言,(这样的天气)算是凉快的了 for
Pre- is a prefix added to cool to form precool.
pre-是加在cool之前变成precool的前缀 prefix
We can take that passage, they have cool shoes in there.
我们走那条道吧,那边有很酷的鞋子卖。 passage
Keep cool, don't push the panic botton!
冷静,不要惊慌失措!

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