muggy
音标：
英音/ ˈmʌɡi / 美音/ ˈmʌɡi /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
The local Weather Service office described the setup as “hot, muggy and basically ‘swimming in the air’ conditions.”
当地气象局办公室将这种情况描述为“炎热、闷热，基本上是‘在空气中游泳’的状况。”
—Washington Post
As night fell, hundreds bedded down across crowded stone floors or curled up on the stairs, inhaling thick, muggy air.
夜幕降临，数百人睡在拥挤的石头地板上，或蜷缩在楼梯上，呼吸着浓浓闷热的空气。
—Washington Post
Farther east, residents of Southern states are bracing for a long spell of hot and muggy days.
再往东，南部各州的居民正准备迎接长期炎热闷热的日子。
—New York Times
基本释意：
adjective
hot or warm and humid
闷热的；潮湿的
同义词：
steamy,sticky
短释义：
“It’s not the heat! It’s the humidity!” That’s what your grandma says when she wants to complain about muggy weather. Muggy means a combination of humidity and heat that makes you sweaty and uncomfortable and long for air-conditioning. You might be cursing the cold and the snow today, but mark my words, come August and the muggy dog days of summer, you’ll be nostalgic for the cold.
想象一下炎热、潮湿、潮湿的天气是如此令人不愉快，以至于当你走出去时你会感觉被它“抢劫”了。这是记住“muggy”含义的一种方法。
长释义：
“It’s not the heat! It’s the humidity!” That’s what your grandma says when she wants to complain about muggy weather. Muggy means a combination of humidity and heat that makes you sweaty and uncomfortable and long for air-conditioning. You might be cursing the cold and the snow today, but mark my words, come August and the muggy dog days of summer, you’ll be nostalgic for the cold.
“不是热！而是湿度！”当你的奶奶想抱怨闷热的天气时，她就是这么说的。闷热意味着潮湿和炎热的结合，让你出汗、不舒服、渴望空调。你今天可能会咒骂寒冷和下雪，但记住我的话，八月和闷热的三伏天到来，你会怀念寒冷的。
文学例句：
The day was miserably hot and muggy, full of flies, mosquitoes, and the bad smells of soapmaking, the outhouses, fish someone had caught, unwashed bodies.
那天闷热得要命，苍蝇、蚊子、制肥皂的难闻气味、厕所的臭味、捕到的鱼和未经清洗的尸体都在。
—Kindred by Octavia Butler
The air was steeped in evil during those muggy, pestilent days.
在那些闷热、瘟疫的日子里，空气中弥漫着邪恶的气息。
—Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Soon the air was so hot and muggy in Elinor’s car that Meggie’s T-shirt was sticking to her skin with sweat.
很快，埃莉诺车里的空气又热又闷，梅吉的 T 恤都被汗水粘在了她的皮肤上。
—Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
词源：
muggy (adj.)”damp and close, warm and humid,” 1746, with -y (2) + obsolete mug “a fog, mist,” from Middle English mugen “to drizzle” (of a fog or a mist, late 14c.), from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mugga “drizzling mist,” which is possibly from PIE *meug- “slimy, slippery” (see mucus).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
muggy（形容词）“潮湿而封闭，温暖而潮湿”，1746 年，带有 -y (2) + 过时的杯子“雾，薄雾”，来自中古英语 mugen“细雨”（雾或薄雾，晚14c.)，来自斯堪的纳维亚语来源，例如古挪威语 mugga“细雨薄雾”，这可能来自 PIE *meug-“粘糊糊的，滑溜溜的”（参见粘液）。相关条目及更多
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