编者按：王逢鑫，北京大学外国语学院英语系教授、博士生导师。曾在联合国教科文组织总部担任同声传译、笔译。我们特请他为英语初学者开设一个实用英语学习栏目，系统介绍日常英语的习惯表达及翻译基础知识。
1．表示气流的各种词汇：
气流air current； 暖流warm current；
热浪hot／heat wave； 寒潮，寒流cold wave，cold-air outbreak；
热天hot day； 冷天cold day
2．表示天气热的说法：
今天天气热。It is a hot day today.或It is hot today．
又一个热天。Another hot day/ dog day/ scorcher！
今天有热浪!We have heat wave today!
有热浪。A hot wave is coming．
天气非常热。It is very/ extremely/ awfully/drectdfully/fearfully/
frightfully/horribly/terribly hot.
天气湿热。It is hot and humid.或It is sticky.
天气闷热。It is stuffy/sultry.
天气灼热。It is scorchingly hot.或It is a scorcher．
天气热得令人不舒服。It is sweltering．或It is swelteringly/un-
comfortably hot.
天气热得无法忍受。 It is intolerably/unbearably hot.
天气热得令人窒息。 It is stiflingly/suffocatingly hot.
天气热得令人压抑。It is oppressively hot．
天气热得不合时令。It is unseasonably hot．
不热不冷。It"s neither hot nor cold.
3．表示天气冷的说法：
今天天气冷。It is a cold day today. 或It is cold/chilly today.
或The weather"s icy today， isn"t it?
天气非常冷。It is very/extremely/awfully/ dreadfully/fearfully/
frightfully/horribly/terribly cold．
今天有寒流!We have cold wave today!
有寒流。A cold wave is coming．
不是非常冷。The cold is not severe．
天气冰冷。It is freezing/freezing cold/freezingly cold/icily cold.
天气刺骨冷。It is bitingly/piercingly cold.
天气冷得无法忍受。It is intolerably/unbearably cold.
天气冷得令人不快。It is unpleasantly cold.
今天早晨空气有股寒意。There is a chill in the air this morning．
天变冷。It is getting/growing cold.或It is growing chilly.
雪后寒。It gets cold after a heavy snowfall.
天寒地冻。The weather is cold and the ground is frozen.
4．表示感觉冷的说法：
我感觉冷。I am/feel cold．
我冻死了。I"m freezing.
我冻僵了。I"m simply frozen.
我手冷。I"ve got cold hands.
打寒颤 shiver/tremble with cold
冻僵become numb/be benumbed with cold
5．表示气压的各种词汇：
大气atmosphere；
气压barometric pressure；
高气压high pressure；
低气压low pressure.