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.
雙語例句
1. The outside air was heavy and moist and sultry.
外面的空氣沉滯、潮濕而悶熱。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The climax came one sultry August evening.
在8月一個悶熱的夜晚，高潮到來了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. a sultry summer afternoon
夏天一個悶熱的下午
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. My mind travelled back to a hot sultry day in the little town.
我的思緒回到從前在這個小鎮(zhèn)上度過的悶熱的一天.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The sultry weather in the tropics encourages tourists to lead an indolent life.