释义 |
draftydraft‧y /ˈdrɑːfti $ ˈdræfti/ adjective - His sister said the old residence on Mulberry Street was drafty and the neighborhood unwholesome.
- It was drafty, full of vast open spaces and slippery floors.
- Other nomes never came in, because it was drafty and stunk unpleasantly.
- She went to sleep for a respite, and when she woke up Stephen was in drafty self-possession.
- The small rooms were cold and drafty, but the livingroom smoldered in wood heat.
- The Viceregal Palace was a drafty mass of ruins except for the wing that Foundation workmen had restored.
- There is sitting on hard benches in drafty basement locker rooms listening to the coach scream at you.
- Why then do I continue to pine for a drafty bedsitter in rain-soaked Islington?
the American spelling of draughty |