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If something cloys, it began as pleasant — sweet food, sweet talk, pretty music, thick praise — and then there is so much of it that you feel full, tired of it, even a bit sick of it. The tongue still knows it is “nice”, but you do not want another bite. The verb is a little old and ; in everyday talk you are more likely to hear the adjective cloying (“the film is too cloying”). People use it of sugar, of romance that is too thick, and of compliments that will not stop. It is not about food that has gone bad; the thing is still sweet. That is the problem.
膩、甜到發膩、讓人膩煩
組成Once a longer word, acloy. From Old French enclouer, tied to Latin clāvus, a nail — the old idea was pinning or blocking something. From “filled / stopped up” it came to mean “so full of a sweet thing that you cannot enjoy it any more”.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cloyname
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A male given name.
- The third Iraq veteran -- 23-year-old Cloy Richards of Salem, Missouri, who was wounded in combat -- will avoid losing his disability benefits after agreeing not to wear his uniform at future protests, the Marine Corps said.
cloyverb/klɔɪ/
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To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
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To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
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To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
- Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。