astew

形容词 adj.
英 /əˈstjuː/|/əˈstʃuː/    美 /əˈstʃʉː/|/əˈstu/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. stewing, very hot and wet
    — Then every day has its afternoon shower, the air is heavy and stifling, all the tropic world is asteam and astew and afloat, vegetation is magnificent, insect life triumphant, and the mountains are hidden in nearly perpetual mist.
  2. stewing, in a state of agitation
    — I, having the fishing germs cultivated a little more than my pals, was all astew to be out on the lake[…].

词源

From a- + stew (“to suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions; to be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger”).
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