sticky的意思|sticky的解释-里氏词典

sticky ['stɪkɪ]

a. 粘的, 有粘性的, 顽固的

sticky

[ adj ]

having the sticky properties of an adhesive

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moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body

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felt sticky and chilly at the same time

hot or warm and humid

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muggy weather

the steamy tropics

sticky weather

hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

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awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion

an awkward pause followed his remark

a sticky question

in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign

covered with an adhesive material

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Sticky \Stick"y\, a. [Compar. {Stickier}; superl. {Stickiest}.]
Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey;
viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Herbs which last longest are those of strong smell, and
with a sticky stalk. --Bacon.

The powdered food is made into a sticky dough with the addition of heat and water.
So authorities are now mulling using a sticky paste to dissuade the birds from roosting at hangers at an airpark.
The disease causes the formation of a thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and digestive tract, blocking breathing and digestion.
But Anthony Clay, of Smith-Woolley, says it is picking up a little although remaining sticky around the Pounds 250,000-Pounds 350,000 range.
Like Tylenol and Perrier before it, the Sudafed incident is raising sticky questions over how advertisers should respond to a crisis that could irretrievably damage a product's image.
Although chemists have been able to synthesize melanin for some years, it is insoluble and sticky and, thus, hasn't been incorporated into commercially usable formulations.
Zebra mussels produce a sticky thread that attaches them to solid objects _ water pipes in Ontario Hydro's case.
Scores of beaches and miles of shore in the sound are sticky black wastelands, and parts of the Kenai Fjords National Park and other areas in the Gulf of Alaska have been contaminated.
It's left to Darman to deal with the sticky question of the deficit.
People in threadbare clothes lined unpaved streets that had turned to seas of sticky mud after a night of rain. "John Paul II, the whole world loves you," they cried.
The Swiss Bankers Association, the industry's trade group, called for gradual and pragmatic revisions of the country's seven stock markets, but its outline fell short of suggestions by the central bank on the sticky point of supervision.
Remove the lid and simmer for about 10 minutes until the liquid is somewhat reduced and sticky.
Heavy oil sinks to the bottom in the form of sticky tar.
And when investors hold proprietary, or in-house, mutual funds, the situation gets sticky because firms often make it difficult to transfer these investments to another firm.
Discharging someone in this era of retaliatory lawsuits is sometimes a sticky matter, but if an employee has broken a clearly stated ethical rule, the company is on safer moral and legal footing.
The state is spraying 400 square miles of Los Angeles and Orange counties at night to wipe out the worst infestation of the crop-destroying bug since 1981-82. Helicopters drop a mixture of malathion and sticky corn syrup bait.
The experimental ointment, however, is far too sticky to make an acceptable product.
The labor dispute comes at a particularly sticky time for the Post-Dispatch, which is no longer the only daily newspaper in town thanks to last fall's startup of the non-union St. Louis Sun by Ingersoll Publications Co. of Princeton, N.J.
Two cosmonauts nearly ran out of oxygen when a sticky hatch prevented them from re-entering their space station, but they will take another space walk next week to repair the door, according to a newspaper report.
The postponement gave about 100,000 residents another day to protect their Porsches, Rolls Royces and expensive outdoor statuary against thousands of gallons of sticky mixture containing Malathion.
Before the bodyguard, Anna Langford said, she jumped into the middle of sticky situations on her own.
Beat in the remaining water and the salt, then mix in enough of the remaining white bread flour to make a soft but not sticky dough. Turn out the dough on to a lightly-floured work surface and knead for 10 minutes until firm and elastic.
The review will deal with the sticky problem of determining which of the weapons, some of which are distinguished only by their appearance and trappings but not their firepower, are for sporting.
One way out for the White House would be to accept the petition, begin the investigation and then leave to the new administration such sticky matters as negotiating with Japan, bringing international charges, and taking retaliatory action.
Traffic was directed away from Madison Avenue, which was covered with 1 to 7 inches of sticky, brownish-black goo.
It was not easy to dance in a cold, sticky stew of grapes, pips and husks, but the villagers were clearly enjoying it; nor did they seem much inhibited by the presence of the squire and his guests.
Or the chalky North Downs that form Surrey's natural frontier with the sticky clay of the Sussex Weald to the south.
Nobuyuki Kakuwa, 33 years old, who quit his machinery business three years ago to push Amway products with his wife, says his work involves a "sticky personal relationship," ubiquitous in the Japanese society.
In a seminar titled "Unraveling the Mysteries of Hide Glue" ("a sticky subject," said Mr. Poletti), three dozen earnest instrument makers got free samples and found out that adding urea to hide glue keeps it liquid longer.
The researchers believe the cleavage step is critical to the virus' infectivity because it makes the virus' envelope protein "sticky," which allows it to fuse to the membrane of a cell it seeks to infect.

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