Sultry
['sʌltrɪ] or ['sʌltri]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; 'the summer was sultry and oppressive'; 'the stifling atmosphere'; 'the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm' .
編輯:兰德尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.
(superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.
贝蒂整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Hot and close, warm and damp.
霍雷肖整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Close, oppressive, depressing
ANT:Open, fresh, invigorating, bracing, elastic, exhilarating, breezy
校對:内奥米
例句/造句/用法:
- The evening was still and warm; close and sultry it even promised to become. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- IV The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When she got there, she found Bessy lying on the settle, moved close to the fire, though the day was sultry and oppressive. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It is a still, sultry, moonless night. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The air in sultry weather, though not cloudy, has a kind of haziness in it, which makes objects at a distance appear dull and indistinct. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The second day was sultry and oppressive. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And then he left the hot reeking room in the borough court, and went out into the fresher, but still sultry street. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The night was so very sultry, that although they sat with doors and windows open, they were overpowered by heat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It was a sultry night, and this was a fine-weather arrangement when the day's work was done. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Yesterday was so sultry every one felt ill. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Above, the sky was almost of a purple color in the sultry night, and the stars, brilliant and large, burned like lamps in the still air. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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