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swelter

英 [ˈsweltə(r)]

美 [ˈsweltər]

v.  热得难受

现在分词:sweltering 过去式:sweltered 第三人称单数:swelters 过去分词:sweltered 

TOEFL

BNC.35400 / COCA.25284

牛津词典

    verb

    • 热得难受
      to be very hot in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable
      1. Passengers sweltered in temperatures of over 90˚F.
        在超过90华氏度的高温下,乘客热得要命。

    柯林斯词典

    • VERB 热得难受;热得发昏
      If youswelter, you are very uncomfortable because the weather is extremely hot.
      1. They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degrees...
        接近华氏 100 度的高温让他们感觉酷热难耐。
      2. Fred and Volodia sweltered at night in the stuffy, crowded cabins.
        弗雷德和博洛迪亚晚上挤在不通风的船舱里热得要命。

    英英释义

    verb

    • suffer from intense heat
      1. we were sweltering at the beach
    • be uncomfortably hot

      双语例句

      • No one is suggesting that people should stop taking their prescriptions, keep smoking or swelter in the July sun, according to the researcher Allison.
        据研究人员艾利森介绍,这项研究并不是建议人们停止使用药方,继续吸烟或忍受炎暑的折磨。
      • You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind.
        南风使地寂静、你的衣服就如火热、你知道麽。
      • The problem of weak ventilation and strong swelter caused by high-density urban is increasingly serious in hot and humid area in summer.
        城市高密度化所导致的居住区外部空间通风不畅、拥挤闷热等问题,在夏季高温高湿地区变得日益严重。
      • I do not want to swelter through another hot and humid summer.
        我可不想再汗流夹背地度过另外一个潮湿闷热的夏天了。
      • The swelter in G summer and subtropical high in 1978
        1978年酷暑与副高活动
      • He often work in a swelter.
        他经常在酷热下工作。
      • Fred and Volodia sweltered at night in the stuffy, crowded cabins.
        弗雷德和博洛迪亚晚上挤在不通风的船舱里热得要命。
      • He says it is unfair that girls can change into skirts during the hot weather, while boys have to swelter in long trousers.
        他说,在炎热的天气里,女孩子们可以换上短裙,然而男孩子们却必须穿着热死人的长裤,这样不公平。
      • He was taking stand against a rule at Impington Village College near Cambridge which allowed girls to change into skirts during hot weather, while boys had to swelter in long trousers.
        小男孩就读于英国剑桥附近的平顿乡村学院,该学校规定天气炎热时女生可以将制服换成短裙,而男生则只能穿着长裤,热得汗流浃背。
      • They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degrees
        接近华氏100度的高温让他们感觉酷热难耐。