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sweltering

/swel-ter-ing/US // ˈswɛl tər ɪŋ //UK // (ˈswɛltərɪŋ) //

炎热的,炎热的天气,闷热的天气,炎热

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : suffering oppressive heat.
    • : characterized by oppressive heat; sultry.

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Examples

  • It was just before 11 on a sweltering summer night, when he knew he could find what he was looking for a few blocks from the Las Vegas Strip.

  • Whether working out in the heat, sweating up a storm on a hike or just walking around by yourself on a warm day, you need a pair of headphones that won’t give up after a few sweltering sessions.

  • That run reached its climax inside a sweltering, dangerously packed Los Angeles Sports Arena in late August when the band made the dozens of others playing FYF Fest irrelevant with a performance that practically suspended time.

  • The sweltering heat expected in Death Valley comes on the heels of its hottest June on record.

  • Heat and drought combine to create volatile fire conditionsIn the meantime, the sweltering heat, low humidity and moisture-starved land surface make for dangerous background conditions for the spread of fires.

  • Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.

  • Basosila Botala is wearing a blue rain jacket despite the sweltering heat.

  • With sweltering hot temperatures, constant sweat was normal.

  • The urban population abandons the sweltering cities and heads to the beach for the month.

  • I've never seen a white body left in the street for four hours in the sweltering heat.

  • Rain storms, hot winds, sweltering intervals of intolerable heat—these were vagaries of nature and might be endured.

  • With the approach of midday the wind had more and more fallen, it was now sweltering hot and the air trembled in the sunshine.

  • Far in the sultry west was an occasional play of lightning, the hot eye of day peeping back into the sweltering night.

  • The dank, decaying vegetation, the dimness, the very airlessness of the sweltering valley—all this is not merely heat.

  • At high noon on the equator, the temperature reached a sweltering 180° absolute; it became somewhat chillier toward the poles.