天气炎热，有关hot的短语你会说吗？

　　正值六月，每天的气温只升不降。提到热，大家都会想到hot这个简单的词语。可是，hot这个词除了表示热的意思之外，它也有许多其他的短语。我们一起来学习一下!

　　1) be in hot water

　　中文里有个说法，叫做处于水深火热之中，形容人的处境危险。在英语中，be in hot water means to be in or get into a difficult situation in which you are in danger of being criticized or punished. 意思是遇到麻烦，处于困境之中。与中文的水深火热的意思相似。

　　If he can't borrow that bank loan by this Friday, he'll be in hot water.

　　如果在周五前他没有办法从银行那儿得到贷款，那他就有麻烦了。

　　I need to be at the airport early. So I might be in hot water if traffic was worse than normal.

　　我需要早些到机场，所以要是交通比平常拥堵的话，我就麻烦了。

　　2) hot potato

　　Hot potato means a subject or problem that no one wants to deal with, because it is difficult and any decision might make people angry. Hot potato可以翻译为烫手山芋，喻指棘手的问题。有的同学直译过来会翻译成“热土豆”，那可就闹笑话啦!

　　They are trying their best to do anything they can to drop her like a hot potato.

　　他们正想尽他们最大努力来把她这个烫手山芋给甩掉。

　　3) Blow hot and cold

　　Blow hot and cold means to sometimes like or be interested in something or someone and sometimes not, so people are confused about how you really feel. “Blow hot and cold” 用来形容对事物的兴趣像天气一样忽冷忽热，变化无常，或者总是改变自己的观点，摇摆不定。

　　The summer holiday is coming, but Annie is still blowing hot and cold about going on a vacation to Hong Kong.

　　暑假要来了，但是Annie对于去香港度假的事情仍然摇摆不定。