In a few minutes the water reached 100 degrees centigrade.

几分钟后，这水就达到沸点。

Athens sweltered on Friday after a second heat wave in days swept through the country, bringing temperatures surpassing 40 degrees centigrade.

雅典周五闷热难耐，这些天来第二波热浪席卷该国，气温超过40摄氏度。

Its boiling point is -269 degrees centigrade. But if you cool things with liquid Helium, you get very strange properties, for example, some materials lose their electrical resistance.

它的沸点是-269摄氏度。 但是如果你用液态氦冷却东西，你会得到非常奇怪的特性， 例如，一些材料会失去电阻。

Without batting an eyelid, in two seconds, she tells me, it’s fourteen degrees centigrade and by afternoon it’s eighteen degrees centigrade, by evening it’s again twelve degrees centigrade.

没有眨一下眼睛，在两秒钟内，她告诉我，现在是14摄氏度，下午是18摄氏度，晚上是12摄氏度。