| 单词 | sticky |
| 释义 | sticky I. 1. 2. of a person II. 1. < stepped in something sticky > < road was very sticky after the rain > < quaking and sticky area … has been a deathtrap for unwary animals — American Guide Series: California > as a. (1) of a substance < sticky syrup > < paint was still sticky > < wad of sticky chewing gum > < black sticky mud > (2) < table was sticky > < wall had been painted and was still sticky > < sticky cinnamon buns > < how she ever got her face so sticky > b. of a turf wicket in cricket c. of snow 2. < a sticky day > < a hot and sticky hour or two on shore — W.H.Ingrams > : moist with perspiration with the clothing sticking to the body : clammy, messy 3. a. of a horse b. < sticky windows > < sticky valves > < found that control movement … was not sticky, like many, but free and smooth — Skyways > c. (1) < sticky prices > < consumer habits are probably more sticky than variations in the level of income are — H.W.Grayson > < labor supply is sticky, perverse, and often unpredictable — L.R.Tripp > (2) < reported that television sets had become sticky > : difficult to secure payment on when due < sticky accounts receivable > < sticky bank loans > d. (1) < tickets are available if you are not sticky about a special day — Saturday Review > < ought to be satisfactory to the stickiest State Department jurist — V.M.Fry > (2) < a sticky question > < sticky problems > < found the going sticky > < the stickiest part of the whole operation — New Yorker > 4. a. < a rather sticky past she wanted to hide — J.B.Priestley > < seemed likely to come to a sticky end > b. < after a rather sticky beginning became firm friends > < scarcely knew each other, and the talk was decidedly sticky — E.M.Forster > < when royalty is in the audience, things are generally very sticky — New Yorker > 5. < a sticky adagio — Wilder Hobson > < a long sticky death scene — Time > < a score as sticky as treacle — John McCarten > < invest childhood with a sticky but romantic gloss — Osbert Sitwell > III. < children were stickied up with popcorn and lollipops and ice cream > |
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