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swelter

/swel-ter/US // ˈswɛl tər //UK // (ˈswɛltə) //

暴风雨,暴风雨来临之际,暴风雨来临前

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to suffer from oppressive heat.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to oppress with heat.
    • : Archaic. to exude, as venom.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sweltering condition.

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Examples

  • There no longer is anywhere to hide from the swelter and welter of the American id.

  • Well, everybody isn't away, when there are several hundred people swelter all the hot season right here in Baltimore.

  • The city, hot as an oven, seemed to swelter in the stifling night.

  • In the crowded quarters of the cities millions of natives swelter and endure with the dumb resignation of animals.

  • Then follows hot weather, perhaps up in the eighties, and Californians grumble, swelter and rustle for summer clothes.

  • But in that glare and swelter of traffic, a trained human eye could not have recognized any particular car.