swelter

英 [ˈsweltə(r)] 美 [ˈsweltər]

v.  热得难受

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TOEFL

BNC.35400 / COCA.25284



牛津词典

verb

  1. 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

  1. VERB 热得难受;热得发昏
    If you swelter, 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。

双语例句

  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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. He often work in a swelter.
    他经常在酷热下工作。
  8. After Massachusetts, a semester in Ohio; and a return to Washington only to sell up, take a last swim, and drive north, in the early September swelter, in our lumbering U-Haul.
    继马萨诸塞之后,我们在俄亥俄州住了一学期;然后回到华盛顿,只是为了卖掉房产,游了最后一次泳,而后,在闷热的九月上旬,开着从搬家公司U-Haul租来的笨拙卡车北上。
  9. 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。
  10. The swelter in G summer and subtropical high in 1978
    1978年酷暑与副高活动
  11. 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。
  12. My teacher more than the provisional license is divided into seven types dialectical therapy: the spleen and stomach Deficiency stomach yang type of stomach yin deficiency, qi stagnation, liver and stomach swelter type, gastrointestinal accumulated heat type, the stomach meridian stasis type.
    临证时吾师多将其分为七型进行辩证施治:脾胃气虚型、脾胃阳虚型、脾胃阴虚型、肝气郁结型、肝胃郁热型、胃肠积热型、胃络瘀阻型。

英英释义

verb

  1. suffer from intense heat
    1. we were sweltering at the beach

  2. be uncomfortably hot