sultry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 闷热的, 性感的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, a sultry heat oppressed the plain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here Mr Codlin's false position in society and the effect it wrought upon his wounded spirit, were strongly illustrated; for whereas he had been last night accosted by Mr Punch as 'master,' and had by inference left the audience to understand that he maintained that individual for his own luxurious entertainment and delight, here he was, now, painfully walking beneath the burden of that same Punch's temple, and bearing it bodily upon his shoulders on a sultry day and along a dusty road.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was among the leafy shadows of this retirement, in the long sultry summer days, that Mr. Harthouse began to prove the face which had set him wondering when he first saw it, and to try if it would change for him.
-- It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
-- Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt Sally jumped for her, and most hugged the head off of her, and cried over her, and I found a good enough place for me under the bed, for it was getting pretty sultry for us, seemed to me.
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