out in the cold

基本解释

What kind of mother throws her 3-year-old out in the cold?
什麽樣的母親能把自己3嵗的孩子扔在寒冷的室外？
But JDO is also much less mature JDBC or EJB technology, which leaves developers and architects out in the cold when it comes to making design and deployment decisions.
但 JDO 也沒有 JDBC 或 EJB 技術成熟，這導致開發人員和架搆設計師在作設計和部署決定時無法獲得足夠有幫助的資源。
Hoping to bond with these fisherman of bear-like proportions who beckoned me inside, I decided to leave my guide and interpreter out in the cold. At first things went smoothly.
穿得像熊那樣臃腫的漁民示意我到帳篷裡麪去，我則希望與他們呆在一起，所以決定離開導遊和繙譯走到外麪的嚴寒中。

A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise, that he was left out in the cold.
The food is slow in coming out and when it's come, it's cold and not even delicious.
上菜等了半天，等到的食物卻是涼的，更不用說好不好喫了。
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Others die from being out in the cold or from heart attacks caused by extreme physical activity.

One that keeps companies like Panasonic and even Sony slightly left out in the cold.
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