Sultry

(adj.) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; 'the summer was sultry and oppressive'; 'the stifling atmosphere'; 'the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm' .

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• The evening was still and warm; close and sultry it even promised to become. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• IV The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When she got there, she found Bessy lying on the settle, moved close to the fire, though the day was sultry and oppressive. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It is a still, sultry, moonless night. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The air in sultry weather, though not cloudy, has a kind of haziness in it, which makes objects at a distance appear dull and indistinct. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The second day was sultry and oppressive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And then he left the hot reeking room in the borough court, and went out into the fresher, but still sultry street. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The night was so very sultry, that although they sat with doors and windows open, they were overpowered by heat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It was a sultry night, and this was a fine-weather arrangement when the day's work was done. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yesterday was so sultry every one felt ill. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Above, the sky was almost of a purple color in the sultry night, and the stars, brilliant and large, burned like lamps in the still air. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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