sultry

• adj.蒸し暑い；激しい；くすぐったい

swelter（蒸し暑い）と-y（形容詞接尾辞）から。女性をセクシー、蒸し暑いなどと表現するときに比喩的に使われる。

sultry (adj.)

1590s, "oppressively hot, close and moist" (of weather), ultimately from swelter + alteration of -y (2), either as a contraction of sweltry or from obsolete verb sulter "to swelter" (1580s), alteration of swelter. Figurative sense of "hot with lust" is attested from 1704; of women, "lascivious, sensual, arousing desire" it is recorded from 1940. Related: Sultriness.

1. The outside air was heavy and moist and sultry .

外の空気は沈滞し、湿って蒸し暑い。

2.The climax came one sultry August evening.

8月の蒸し暑い夜、クライマックスが到来した。

3.a sultry summer afternoon

夏の蒸し暑い午後

4.My mind travelled back to a hot sultry day in the little town.

私の考えは昔この町で過ごした蒸し暑い一日に戻った。

5.The sultry weather in the tropis encourages tourists to lead an indolent life.

熱帯の蒸し暑い気候は観光客に怠惰な生活を送るしかない。