soppy

英语[编辑]

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soppy (比較級 soppier，最高級 soppiest)

湿透的
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], 出版於 1850, →OCLC:
  Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
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- 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I:
  'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'
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(比喻義) 感伤的，多愁善感的
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 章號 4, 出自 This Side of Paradise, 卷 1:
  " […] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."
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