极度寒冷，酷寒
extremely cold
It was piercingly cold when we came out of the warm cave. 当我们从温暖的山洞里出来时，天气冷得刺骨。
The weather remained piercingly cold all week.
The bedrooms at their house were always piercingly cold in winter.
The weather had changed from a piercingly cold hailstorm to warm sunshine.
We walked for miles in the piercingly cold night air.
See also: piercingly