うだるような
解説 Definition
sweltering は swelter(暑さでうだる、汗だくになる)の現在分詞からできた形で、形容詞として「うだるような、非常に蒸し暑い」という意味です。天気や部屋など、暑さが不快で耐えにくいことを表すときによく使われます。
Sweltering describes weather, a place, or a period of time that is oppressively and uncomfortably hot, often with a sense of heavy humidity. It is stronger than warm or hot and commonly modifies heat, days, rooms, and cities.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 swelter「暑さでうだる」に -ing を付けた現在分詞由来の形容詞で、語末を重ねず sweltering。発音は swelter /ˈsweltər/ に /ɪŋ/ を加える。sweltering heat、sweltering afternoon、a sweltering room のように、単に warm ではなく汗が出て耐えにくい猛暑を表すと覚える。
Begin with the verb swelter, meaning to suffer in oppressive heat, and add -ing without doubling the final consonant. The adjective therefore presents the weather or place as causing that suffering. Remember it through common combinations: sweltering heat, a sweltering afternoon, and a sweltering room. Imagine waiting in a humid classroom before the air conditioner starts; the heat is not merely warm or pleasantly hot but difficult to endure. Compared with sultry, which can sometimes suggest a heavy atmosphere, sweltering focuses very clearly on intense, uncomfortable heat.
例文
We walked home in the sweltering afternoon heat.
私たちはうだるような午後の暑さの中を歩いて帰りました。
The classroom felt sweltering before the air conditioner was turned on.
エアコンがつく前、教室はうだるように暑く感じられました。
Even after sunset, the city remained sweltering and humid.
日が沈んだあとも、その街はうだるように暑く湿っていました。
sweltering の類義語・関連語
sweltering の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語sweltan(死ぬ、暑さで苦しむ)に由来するswelterの現在分詞形。原義は「熱で死にそうになる」で、そこから「蒸し暑い」の意味に発展した。関連語:swelter(蒸し暑さ)、sultry(蒸し暑い)。「死ぬほど暑い」が語源と知ると、うだるような暑さの実感がよく伝わる。
Sweltering is the present-participial form of swelter, now widely used as an adjective. Swelter is historically related to Old English sweltan, meaning “to die,” and later developed the sense of suffering or becoming faint from excessive heat. The -ing form came to characterize conditions that make people feel overwhelmed by heat. Its history supports the word’s strong intensity: sweltering normally describes oppressive heat rather than a merely warm temperature.
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