swelter
swelter 英 ['sweltə] 美
n. 闷热；热得难受 vi. 被暑气所苦；热得难受 vt. 使闷热；使中暑
进行时:sweltering 过去式:sweltered 过去分词:sweltered 第三人称单数:swelters
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- n. 闷热；热得难受
- vi. 被暑气所苦；热得难受
- vt. 使闷热；使中暑
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1. As the globe warms, researchers warn they may be forced to swelter in burrows and under bushes with little time to eat, find mates or rear young.
随着全球变暖，研究人员警告，他们可能会被迫困在闷热的洞穴和灌木丛中，几乎没有时间进食、寻找配偶和培育后代。
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2. After Massachusetts, a semester in Ohio; and a return to Washington only to sell up, take a last swim, and drive north, in the early September swelter, in our lumbering U-Haul.
继马萨诸塞之后，我们在俄亥俄州住了一学期；然后回到华盛顿，只是为了卖掉房产，游了最后一次泳，而后，在闷热的九月上旬，开着从搬家公司U-Haul租来的笨拙卡车北上。
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3. He was taking stand against a rule at Impington Village College near Cambridge which allowed girls to change into skirts during hot weather, while boys had to swelter in long trousers.
小男孩就读于英国剑桥附近的平顿乡村学院，该学校规定天气炎热时女生可以将制服换成短裙，而男生则只能穿着长裤，热得汗流浃背。
- swelter (n.) "a sweltering condition," 1851, from swelter (v.).
- swelter (v.) c. 1400, "faint with heat," frequentative of swelten "be faint (especially with heat)," late 14c., from Old English sweltan "to die, perish," from Proto-Germanic *swiltan- (source also of Old Saxon sweltan "to die," Old Norse svelta "to put to death, starve," Gothic sviltan "to die"), perhaps originally "to burn slowly," hence "to be overcome with heat or fever," from PIE root *swel- (2) "to shine, beam" (see Selene). From the same ancient root comes Old English swelan "to burn." For specialization of words meaning "to die," compare starve. Related: Sweltered; sweltering.
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