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Sultry Summer Heat Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词   [Written 笔语 英

英语单词 sultry
英美音标 英 ['sʌltri] 美 ['sʌltri]
中文释义 adj.闷热的;风骚的;淫荡的;易怒的;激烈的
英语例句 (1) I met her in a sultry summer afternoon.
(2) She gave him a sultry look.
中文例句 (1) 我在夏天一个闷热的下午遇见了她。
(2) 她撩拨春心地看了他一眼。
vocabulary简明 Stifling, humid and downright oppressive, sultry is an adjective that has everything to do with sweltering heat and a definite need for a tall glass of iced tea.
vocabulary扩展 You know how movies about the old south always show people wilting in the shade of their front porches, mopping their damp brows? Well that's because of the sultry summer weather. A sultry atmosphere is thick, almost swampy feeling. And all that heavy heat can certainly get passions stirring — "a sultry look" is one that happens to express steamy desire.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]湿热的;闷热的 Sultry weather is hot and damp.
  [usu ADJ n]
  [WRITTEN 笔语]
  • The climax came one sultry August evening.

    在 8 月一个闷热的夜晚,高潮到来了。

2
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]迷人的;撩人的;风情万种的 Someone who is sultry is attractive in a way that suggests hidden passion.
  [WRITTEN 笔语]
  • ...a dark-haired sultry woman.

    性感迷人的黑发女郎

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