sultry的意思|sultry的解释-里氏词典

sultry ['sʌltrɪ]

a. 闷热的, 粗暴的, 放荡的, 激烈的

sultry
sultrier, sultriest

[ adj ]

sexually exciting or gratifying

<adj.all>

sensual excesses

a sultry look

a sultry dance

characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

<adj.all>

the summer was sultry and oppressive

the stifling atmosphere

the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm

Sultry \Sul"try\ (s[u^]l"tr[y^]), a. [Compar. {Sultrier}
(s[u^]l"tr[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Sultriest}.] [From
{Sweltry}.]
1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry
deserts.

Such as, born beneath the burning sky
And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. --Dryden.

2. Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and
oppressive, as air.

When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain plant. --Addison.

One fanciful tabloid has even engineered a kiss and tell on the cheap, hiring a medium to transmit the amorous confessions of a sultry, though deceased, British actress.
The main franchise salesman was Mr. Johnson's brother-in-law, driving in a former farm station wagon and handicapped by the vehicle's pervasive manure odor on sultry days.
Don't let the coming attractions showing a sultry Jodie Foster lure you into thinking that there's anything interesting about this hapless little coming-of-age picture.
With Claire Powell's sultry, sulky Maddalena and Francisco Araiza's ducal spiv, it seemed likely enough.
Horney, star of such German films as "Savoy Hotel 217" and famous for her her sultry voice, died of heart failure, according to the New German Film Company.
The sultry pop idol was to perform two concerts May 11 and 12 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
Men can swoon at the dominatrix whip wielded (metaphorically speaking) by sultry, darkhaired Linda Fiorentino, a go-getting wife who gets gone with Dollars 700,000 of her drug-dealing husband's money.
IT IS almost dark, on a hot, sultry July night.
The sultry singer will not be performing in the telecast, though, because she's touring in Europe.
The sultry Miss Scarlet with a wrench?
This week, Michelob also dropped the sultry women in spandex from its advertising.
Her Covent Garden debut in January, postponed for a few days due to illness, was not reported on this page, and Tuesday's performance explained her reputation as a sultry Carmen.
Kathleen Turner is thrilled to be playing the sultry Maggie in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but stressed that she doesn't identify with any of the characters she portrays.

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