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第三人称单数:cloys
现在分词:cloying
过去式:cloyed
过去分词:cloyed
cloyingly (adv.), cloyingness (n.)
transitive verb
to oversupply with something sweet or pleasant so that the experience of these things becomes sickening or wearisome.We were dazzled by the immense size of the ice cream sundaes, but the sweetness eventually cloyed us.
intransitive verb
to become sickening or wearisome by being excessively sweet or pleasant.Too much of any pleasant thing, even spending time with amiable friends, can eventually cloy.
"weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, 源自中古英语 cloyen "hinder movement, encumber"(14世纪晚期),缩写自 accloyen(14世纪早期),源自古法语 encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," 比喻意义为 "to hinder, check, stop, curb",源自晚期拉丁语 inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing",源自拉丁语 clavus "a nail"(源自 PIE 词根 *klau- "hook")。
Accloye is a hurt that cometh of shooing, when a Smith driveth a nail in the quick, which make him to halt. [Edward Topsell, "The History of Four-footed Beasts," 1607]
Accloye 是一种由于马蹄铁钉子钉入马蹄时伤害的疼痛,这使得马蹄受伤。[爱德华·托普塞尔,《四足兽的历史》,1607]
比喻意义 "fill to a satiety, overfill" 自14世纪晚期起可从 accloy 中证实。相关词汇: Cloyed; cloying。
Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of acloyen to harm, maim, modification of Anglo-French encloer to nail, prick a horse with a nail in shoeing, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in + clavus nail
The first known use of cloy was in 1528
clubfootnoun
a misshapen foot twisted out of position from birthalso: this deformed condition
cloyverb
to supply with too much of something that was originally pleasing
1 All that languid prettiness alongside the almost painfully lovely Ravel piano concerto is slightly cloying, despite Mr. Wheeldon’s skill; you can’t help feeling that he could put this kind of thing together in his sleep.
2 It’s not art of the cloying variety; it doesn’t depict pain that is pity-seeking, or that aims to emotionally hijack an audience on a ride through some dreary personal catharsis.
3 And sings and sings and sings, cloying aria after cloying aria.
4 The air in the room was full of the sweet, cloying smell of whiskey, and every corner was heaped with mementos of trips to England and South Africa.
5 The panels offer snippets of the lyrics of “Home” in noodly digital handwriting, embellished by cloying graphics of butterflies and flowers.
6 Vases of blossoms give off a cloying scent that makes my eyes itch.
7 I normally find puddings overly sweet and cloying, but L'Artichaut's pink peppercorn and lime meringues with lemon curd and bitter chocolate sauce was one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten.
8 Yes, after years of bitter animosity – and a few months of slightly cloying chumminess – it's been announced that Robbie Williams has officially rejoined .
9 This is a very good thing: songs like “Christmas Time is Here” and “Linus and Lucy” are far less cloying than most Christmas tunes.
10 And for all of the joy and charm that Sharp packs into "Miniatures," the record, to the artist's great credit, is never cloying, only sincere.
11 The odd engaging moment is always followed by a cloying eye-roller.
12 I have always found Bellow’s artfulness to cloy over the length of his longest novels.
13 For years Cork flourished as the neighborhood’s lone fine-dining spot, serving avocado toast long before it became a cloying trend.
14 Never cloying, she comes at her role simply and without affectation, and suggests that happiness is less birthright than stubborn spiritual discipline.
15 That’s the effect — both stultifying and cloying — of the musical “A Second Chance,” which opened at the Public Theater on Sunday night.
16 The cloying taste of honey is in my mouth.
17 The danger with the material is that its daffy sweetness can grow cloying.
18 Lighter styles will have marked notes of strawberries, raspberries, and rhubarb; I like them on the drier side to keep the fruit from being cloying.
19 Refreshingly, he maintained a classical poise, using, for example, crisp articulation to keep the slow movement from sounding cloying.
20 As a concept, that sounds cloying and self-involved, but if Adlon ever dangles her storylines close to those edges, she yanks them right back with a pithy line, or another abrupt end to a scene.
1 使腻烦
2 厌烦
browned-off tired weary pissed wearily irk weariness ennui disrelish overcloy exercise worry labor bind bore fracture plague dislike displeasure displease sate pall have a snoot full brassed off
3 生厌
7 使厌烦
overcloy exercise worry labor bind bore fracture plague dislike displeasure irk displease sate pall
8 倒胃口