clammy

• adj. 濕粘的；濕冷的（形容詞比較級clammier，形容詞最高級clammiest，名詞clamminess，副詞clammily）

來自PIE*glei,黏，粘，詞源同clay,glue.

clammy

clammy: [14] Etymologically, clammy means ‘sticky as if smeared with clay’. It comes from the now obsolete verb clam ‘smear, stick’. This goes back to Old English cl?man, a word of ancient ancestry: its prehistoric Germanic source was *klaimjan, a verb derived from *klaimaz ‘clay’; this was formed from the base *klai-, which is also the ultimate source of English clay and can be traced back to the Indo-European base *gloi-, *glei-, *gli-, from which English gets glue and gluten.
=> clay, glue

clammy (adj.)

"soft and sticky," late 14c., probably from Middle English clam "viscous, sticky, muddy" (mid-14c.), from Old English cl?m "mud, sticky clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz "clay" (cognates: Flemish klammig, Low German klamig "sticky, damp," Old English cl?man "to smear, plaster;" cognates: clay). With -y (2). Related: Clammily; clamminess.

1. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist!

想想你去看牙醫(yī)時那雙黏糊糊的手！

來自柯林斯例句

2. My shirt was clammy with sweat.

我的襯衫汗涔涔的。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Daybreak found us on a cold, clammy ship.

天亮時我們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己呆在一條冰冷黏濕的船上。

來自柯林斯例句

4. His skin felt cold and clammy.

他的皮膚摸上去冷冰冰濕乎乎的。

來自《權威詞典》

5. My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back.

襯衫貼到我汗津津的背上.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》