sultry
sultry 英 [ˈsʌltri] 美 [ˈsʌltri]
adj. 闷热的；狂暴的；淫荡的
比较级:sultrier 最高级:sultriest
- 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.
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- adj. 闷热的；狂暴的；淫荡的
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1. But who knows if he is on his way this lazy sultry noon, the Stranger, carrying his basket of strange wares ?
但是，有谁知道，也许就在这闷热倦人的正午，那个陌生人提着满篮奇特的货物，已经上路？
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2. I have no memory of any that offered air conditioning, which would have been handy in a sultry St. Louis July.
在圣路易斯闷热的七月，空调本应唾手可得，可我不记得有哪家影院曾提供国这项服务。
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3. Ladies match a handbag to their best PJs, for a trip to the shops; old men wear only boxer shorts in the sultry streets.
女士们会挎上与自己最好的睡衣相配的手包去逛商店；在闷热的街道上，老年男子会只穿着条平角短裤。
- 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.
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