The pleasures of idleness soon cloy. 无所事事的享乐很快就使人厌烦了。
cloying
[ adj ] overly sweet <adj.all>
Cloy \Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloyed} (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cloying}.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d {Clove}.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak.
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser.
He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson.
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.
It is hard to see what else would have drawn her to this cloying, lightweight piece of American nostalgia. The year is 1962, and Bates is a plucky widow trying to raise six kids on minimum wages.
The characters have the sweetness of a Disney film without being cloying. Especially good are Wiest's ever-optimistic mother and Alan Arkin's decent, plain-talking father.
Zagnit is able to be appealing without descending into cloying cuteness.
Perhaps the chief disappointment is "The Natchez" (1822-1835), a cloying, sentimentalized depiction of an American Indian couple huddled around their newborn baby.
Aside from the cloying self-congratulation, there are two problems with "A Path Where No Man Thought."
Every time her film teeters on the brink of a real conflict, such as Kavner's use of her eldest daughter's teen angst for material, Ephron retreats into a hollow, feel-good reconciliation, usually accompanied by a cloying Carly Simon soundtrack.
Bayles (taking a deep breath): By the same token, because you don't stand for anybody but yourself, you don't have to deliver the sort of sanctimonious minisermons that make sitcoms so cloying.