One way to hold this word: put your hand on a stone. It is cold, it stays cold, and your hand does not warm it. Nothing about it gives anything back. Every use of stone-cold can be seen as that stone laid against something else — against soup that should still be hot, against a face that should have flinched, against a shooter whose hand has stopped working, against a claim that will not bend. The stone is not really about temperature; it is about being all the way over, with nothing left of the warm side.
可以想成：把手放在一塊石頭上。它是涼的，一直都涼，你的手也焐不熱它。它不會回給你任何溫度。stone-cold 的每一種用法，都可以想成把那塊石頭貼到別的東西上：貼到本來該熱的湯上，貼到本來該有反應的臉上，貼到一個投不進球的手上，貼到一句不容人反駁的話上。石頭真正代表的不是溫度。它代表「已經到底了」，熱的那一邊一點都不剩。
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