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If a room or a building is draughty, cold air keeps blowing through it — under the door, around the window, through cracks in an old wall. You feel a thin, unwelcome wind on your neck. It is ordinary British English, slightly complaining, the kind of thing you say about a poorly sealed house in winter. Americans write drafty. Though actually, a little moving air can be nice in summer; we mostly say draughty when that air is a nuisance, not a blessing.
透風的;會灌冷風的、有穿堂風的(美式拼作 drafty)
組成draught (a current of air, British spelling) + -y (full of that).
同家族的字
- draughtthe cold air that blows through; a draughty room is full of draughts
原始詞典資料1 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。
draughtyadj/ˈdɹɑːfti/
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Standard spelling of drafty.
- Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.
- To lovers of Victoriana it will not be necessary to enlarge on the original beauty of many [old stations], but to the modern traveller romantic nostalgia will not compensate for bleak, draughty waiting rooms, ancient sanitation, uncomfortable grimy seats and gas lighting; he is likely to prefer the comforts of a modern car on a winter's morning.
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。