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Smoggy is the adjective for air, days, cities or skies full of . If the air is smoggy, it is thick with pollution you can see — a grey-brown blur that the view and makes the sun look pale and orange. You use it about the weather and about places: "a smoggy afternoon," "a smoggy city," "it's smoggy today." It is an ordinary everyday word, not technical; a scientist would write about particulate concentrations, but a neighbour just says "it's really smoggy out there." It works with the usual degree words — quite smoggy, very smoggy, smoggier than yesterday, the smoggiest week of the year. Almost always it describes air or the things air fills, so "smoggy sky" and "smoggy streets" are fine, but you would not call a river or a person smoggy. It carries a faint complaint in it: nobody says smoggy . Writers sometimes reach for it to set a mood — a smoggy stands for a tired, crowded, industrial place — and that borrowed feeling is part of why it turns up in novels and song lyrics more than the plain noun does.
霧霾瀰漫的、空氣污濁的(形容天氣或城市,如「今天空氣很糟」)
組成smog + -y. The ending -y turns a noun into an adjective meaning 'full of this' or 'like this' — the same move that gives rainy from rain and dusty from dust. Because smog ends in a single consonant after a short vowel, the g doubles before -y, which is why it is smoggy and not smogy.
原始詞典資料2 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。
Smoggynoun
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derogatoryA person from Middlesbrough.
smoggyadj/ˈsmɒ.ɡi/
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Having smog.
- It was another smoggy day in Los Angeles.
- In Los Angeles, that means relatively cool with few temperature inversions that trap the gases that help make the region the smoggiest in the country.
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。