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单词 airless
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Definition of airless in English:

airless

adjective ˈɛːləsˈɛrləs
  • 1Stuffy; not ventilated.

    憋闷的,不通风的

    a dusty, airless basement

    满是积尘的不通风的地下室。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I wish this office wasn't so stuffy and airless.
    • After a cold dinner of egg sandwiches by candlelight we turned in early to our stuffy, airless rooms at 9.30 pm, exhausted.
    • While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
    • It was a line-up with colourful opinions that frequently clashed, but after a migraine-inducing day in the airless basement of a London hotel, a shortlist of 10 was produced.
    • Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver?
    • I was in the airless room for an hour, putting the enormous pile of records into numerical order, stuffing them inside their correct folders.
    • After the ceremony, we all bypassed the sunshine and strawberries of our respective department receptions and brought our families down into an airless, windowless basement office.
    • Though it has no porthole and is cramped and airless, it is comfortable, with clean white bedlinen, table reading lamps and the inevitable Chinese thermos flasks.
    • That was understandable; it was in a military court at the Royal Air Force base in Uxbridge, Middlesex, in an airless room with a judge sitting at a table at one end of the room, and a gaggle of journalists sitting at the other.
    • More than a dozen ministers, advisers and party officials packed the airless ante-room next to the conference chamber on London's Victoria Street, but only two voices dominated the conversation.
    • While they have valiantly tried to make the incarceration more tolerable by painting murals and flags on the outside walls, by planting gardens and decorating their airless rooms, nothing can disguise the palpable air of despair.
    • I love good food, good company, music, and the outdoors (ironic, as this is being typed up at a computer terminal in an airless building!)
    • The hotel was nicely furnished in the Bulgarian communist, baroque style, completely airless without any windows open and extremely hot and uncomfortable inside.
    • In real life, my family and I were shuffled off to a cramped, airless, plasticky holding area and offered cheap pastries and instant coffee.
    • The ‘office’ was a dour, airless place, with bulletproof glass screens protecting the two women who were processing the queue.
    • My siblings and I dreaded setting foot in it, especially in the dead of winter, since it was lightless, airless, cold, like a kind of place where all the unwanted things of life came to rest.
    • The further the tube goes underground the more airless and muggy it becomes and I am grateful for papers to read.
    • In the tenements of the Bend - three, four, and five stories each - families and solitary lodgers, who paid five cents apiece for floor space, crowded together in airless cubicles.
    • Fifteen years ago on a warm August night in an airless Edinburgh basement, this newspaper was born.
    • By contrast the house was stuffy and airless and I repaired to my garden chair, Dolly and Harry following on behind.
    Synonyms
    stuffy, close, stifling, suffocating, breathless, sultry, muggy, fuggy, stale, humid, oppressive
    unventilated, badly/poorly ventilated
    smoky
    1. 1.1 Without wind or breeze; still.
      无风的;一动不动的
      a hot, airless night

      炎热无风的夜晚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I sat at home and watched him give evidence to the foreign affairs select committee on an airless summer's day in July 2003.
      • I am sitting, on a warm, airless night, at a table on the dark side of a Roman piazza.
      • I am writing this column by candlelight, and in the encircling gloom outside I can hear a few generators disturbing the otherwise still and airless night with their thudding din.
      • Our three invalids, though, in spite of languishing in the shade and in one of the few airless parts of the front garden, produce plenty of blooms that are simply too beautiful to destroy.
      • To his surprise, it started to become humid and airless.

Derivatives

  • airlessness

  • nounˈɛːləsnəsˈɛrləsnəs
    • Perhaps she is just overcome by the airlessness of a crowded room.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer - all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.
      • The metal construction of the cells and the lack of windows exacerbates their airlessness in a tropical heat which is relentless, all year round.
      • If the airlessness of the venue on a warm evening hadn't already taken my breath away, the concentrated power of this production certainly would have.
      • Renovating your home makes the difference between the airlessness of your apartment and an airy dwelling.

Definition of airless in US English:

airless

adjectiveˈerləsˈɛrləs
  • 1Stuffy; not ventilated.

    憋闷的,不通风的

    a dusty, airless basement

    满是积尘的不通风的地下室。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The hotel was nicely furnished in the Bulgarian communist, baroque style, completely airless without any windows open and extremely hot and uncomfortable inside.
    • My siblings and I dreaded setting foot in it, especially in the dead of winter, since it was lightless, airless, cold, like a kind of place where all the unwanted things of life came to rest.
    • After a cold dinner of egg sandwiches by candlelight we turned in early to our stuffy, airless rooms at 9.30 pm, exhausted.
    • In real life, my family and I were shuffled off to a cramped, airless, plasticky holding area and offered cheap pastries and instant coffee.
    • I was in the airless room for an hour, putting the enormous pile of records into numerical order, stuffing them inside their correct folders.
    • That was understandable; it was in a military court at the Royal Air Force base in Uxbridge, Middlesex, in an airless room with a judge sitting at a table at one end of the room, and a gaggle of journalists sitting at the other.
    • Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver?
    • I love good food, good company, music, and the outdoors (ironic, as this is being typed up at a computer terminal in an airless building!)
    • Though it has no porthole and is cramped and airless, it is comfortable, with clean white bedlinen, table reading lamps and the inevitable Chinese thermos flasks.
    • While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
    • It was a line-up with colourful opinions that frequently clashed, but after a migraine-inducing day in the airless basement of a London hotel, a shortlist of 10 was produced.
    • Fifteen years ago on a warm August night in an airless Edinburgh basement, this newspaper was born.
    • By contrast the house was stuffy and airless and I repaired to my garden chair, Dolly and Harry following on behind.
    • I wish this office wasn't so stuffy and airless.
    • After the ceremony, we all bypassed the sunshine and strawberries of our respective department receptions and brought our families down into an airless, windowless basement office.
    • The further the tube goes underground the more airless and muggy it becomes and I am grateful for papers to read.
    • While they have valiantly tried to make the incarceration more tolerable by painting murals and flags on the outside walls, by planting gardens and decorating their airless rooms, nothing can disguise the palpable air of despair.
    • In the tenements of the Bend - three, four, and five stories each - families and solitary lodgers, who paid five cents apiece for floor space, crowded together in airless cubicles.
    • More than a dozen ministers, advisers and party officials packed the airless ante-room next to the conference chamber on London's Victoria Street, but only two voices dominated the conversation.
    • The ‘office’ was a dour, airless place, with bulletproof glass screens protecting the two women who were processing the queue.
    Synonyms
    stuffy, close, stifling, suffocating, breathless, sultry, muggy, fuggy, stale, humid, oppressive
    1. 1.1 Without wind or breeze; still.
      无风的;一动不动的
      a hot, airless night

      炎热无风的夜晚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am sitting, on a warm, airless night, at a table on the dark side of a Roman piazza.
      • To his surprise, it started to become humid and airless.
      • I am writing this column by candlelight, and in the encircling gloom outside I can hear a few generators disturbing the otherwise still and airless night with their thudding din.
      • Our three invalids, though, in spite of languishing in the shade and in one of the few airless parts of the front garden, produce plenty of blooms that are simply too beautiful to destroy.
      • I sat at home and watched him give evidence to the foreign affairs select committee on an airless summer's day in July 2003.
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