sweltering

大学 FREQ #45367

a. 闷热的, 热得难受的, 中暑的

词形变化

swelterings 复数 swelterings

教材释义与例句

形容词

闷热的；热得难受的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

    March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.

v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of swelter

adj.
  1. 1.

    hot and humid; oppressively sticky

    闷热的

    The day was sweltering, so Lauren put on the shortest pair of shorts she could find and went to get ice-cream with her friend Rob.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

sweltry

近义相关 1

hot

词源

From swelter + -ing.

来源：wiktionary