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sweltering adj.酷热的 (1) 夏日炎炎正好眠。 A sweltering summer afternoon might cause you to turn on the air conditioning in your apartment or take a cool shower. To be sweltering is more than merely being hot — it's the kind of damp, intense heat that sends everyone to the pool or beach for some relief. The verb swelter came first, from the now obsolete word swelten, "be faint from heat," rooted in the Old English sweltan, "to die or perish."

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英 ['sweltərɪŋ] 美 ['sweltərɪŋ] (1) On sweltering summer days, sleeping is just fine. Sweltering means uncomfortably hot. Walking home from work on a sweltering day will leave you sweating. 1[ADJ 形容词]炎热的；酷热的；热得难受的 If you describe the weather as sweltering, you mean that it is extremely hot and makes you feel uncomfortable.

英语单词	sweltering
英美音标	英 ['sweltərɪŋ] 美 ['sweltərɪŋ]
中文释义	adj.酷热的
英语例句	(1) On sweltering summer days, sleeping is just fine.
中文例句	(1) 夏日炎炎正好眠。
vocabulary简明	Sweltering means uncomfortably hot. Walking home from work on a sweltering day will leave you sweating.
vocabulary扩展	A sweltering summer afternoon might cause you to turn on the air conditioning in your apartment or take a cool shower. To be sweltering is more than merely being hot — it's the kind of damp, intense heat that sends everyone to the pool or beach for some relief. The verb swelter came first, from the now obsolete word swelten, "be faint from heat," rooted in the Old English sweltan, "to die or perish."
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ 形容词]炎热的；酷热的；热得难受的 If you describe the weather as sweltering, you mean that it is extremely hot and makes you feel uncomfortable.

Sweltering Summer Hot 英 Sweltərɪŋ] 美 Sweltərɪŋ Adj.酷热的 Days