Think of a desert at noon: the sun straight overhead, the air dry enough to crack your lips, everything slowly baking. That baking is what torrid seems to be built on. Move the heat into two people and you get a torrid affair. Put a person inside the oven and you get a torrid time, one bad hour after another. Point the same heat at a player's hands and you get an American sportswriter's torrid streak, where every shot goes in.
From the word’s history
English torrid comes from Latin torridus, from the verb torreo, meaning to parch or scorch. The modern core, heat dry enough to bake, sits right on that root.
torrid 來自拉丁文 torridus，源頭是動詞 torreō，意思是「烤乾、燒焦」。今天的核心意思——乾到能把東西烤裂的熱——正好接在這個字根上。
Wiktionary entry for torrid (packet etymology_text): "From Latin torridus, from torreō (“parch, scorch”)."
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