ADJ-GRADED 阴冷的;寒冷的 Something that is chilly is unpleasantly cold.
It was a chilly afternoon... 那是个阴冷的下午。
The rooms had grown chilly. 房间慢慢变得阴冷起来。
ADJ-GRADED 冷的;有寒意的 If you feel chilly, you feel rather cold.
I'm a bit chilly. 我有点冷。
ADJ-GRADED (人际关系、反应)冷淡的,冷冰冰的,不热情的 You say that relations between people are chilly or that a person's response is chilly when they are not friendly, welcoming, or enthusiastic.
I was slightly afraid of their chilly distant politeness. 他们那种冷冰冰的、敬而远之的客套让我有点憷头。
But as the weather grows chillier, she is retreating indoors. 但由于天气越来越冷,她正准备转战室内。
Iraq's Shia-led government, which used to fear the prospect of a Sunni regime displacing Mr Assad and his Alawites, has become chillier. 伊拉克的什叶派政府,之前一直担忧逊尼派政权会取代阿萨德和阿拉维派的统治,现在也变的越发冷淡。
Living in Los Angeles now, it's sometimes hard to describe to people how winter weather can be in chillier climates. 现在我住在洛杉矶,有时我都没办法告诉这里的人一个真正寒冷的冬天是什么样子的。
Something colder and chillier confronted him. 他正面临着某种更加寒冷、更加凄凉的东西。
You could expect an aggressive increase in domestic R& D spending as the country focused on homegrown technology, as well as a chillier climate for multinationals with research operations in China. 为实现这一目标,中国将在研发领域投入上百亿美元。当其他国家还在苦苦追赶时,此举已令中国成为汽车技术领域的龙头老大。