| 单词 | sultry |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['sʌltri] |
| 解释 | a.闷热的；(人)风骚的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 adj.闷热的(very hot and humid； sweltering)；(人)风骚的(capable of exciting strong sexual desires) 【例】 sultry weather(闷热的天气) /a sultry-voiced singer(撩拨春心的歌 手) |
| 字源 | sultry (adj.) 1590s, "oppressively hot, close and moist" (of weather), ultimately from swelter + alteration of -y (2), either as a contraction of sweltry or from obsolete verb sulter "to swelter" (1580s), alteration of swelter. Figurative sense of "hot with lust" is attested from 1704; of women, "lascivious, sensual, arousing desire" it is recorded from 1940. Related: Sultriness. |
| 不择手段背单词 | adj. 闷热的; 风骚的 = voluptuous 【记】读: 骚吹, 吹来一股骚风, 来了风骚的女人, 见到她有闷热的感觉. |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】源自swelter出汗；音：烧炊，烧火做炊事，很闷热；音：骚吹，骚热的风吹来；音：骚唇，风骚的嘴唇 【相关】hot 有风骚的意思 |
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