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be + cloying
cloying 作表语时，主语通常是事物、情感或言语。
The movie's ending was a bit cloying.
这部电影的结尾有点令人腻烦。
令人腻烦的；倒胃口的
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
令人腻烦的；倒胃口的
that supplies or feeds to surfeit; causing disgust through excess
The movie's ending was a bit cloying.
这部电影的结尾有点令人腻烦。
令人腻烦的过度
Unpleasantly excessive.
过于甜腻的
Excessively sweet.
过分甜腻的
overly sweet
The cake was too cloying for me because it had far too much sugar.
这个蛋糕对我来说太甜腻了，因为糖放得太多了。
Her cloying compliments made everyone in the office uncomfortable.
她那令人腻烦的奉承让办公室里每个人都不自在。
I find this perfume cloying; a single spray is enough.
我觉得这款香水太过甜腻，喷一下就够了。
cloying 作表语时，主语通常是事物、情感或言语。
The movie's ending was a bit cloying.
这部电影的结尾有点令人腻烦。
常用来修饰 sweetness、sentimentality 等表示味道或情感的词。
She smiled with cloying sweetness.
她带着甜得发腻的微笑。
表示“觉得某事令人腻烦”的常用结构。
I find his constant flattery cloying.
我觉得他不断的恭维令人倒胃口。
Not this
This dessert is too cloy.
Use this
This dessert is too cloying.
cloy 是动词，不能直接用在 be 动词后作表语；表示“太腻”应用形容词 cloying。
Not this
The cake was cloying sweet.
Use this
The cake was cloyingly sweet.
修饰形容词 sweet 要用副词 cloyingly，而不是把 cloying 当作副词；cloyingly sweet 表示“甜得发腻”。
Not this
The lecture was cloying.
Use this
The lecture was boring.
cloying 指因过甜、过多或过分多情而令人腻烦，不表示“无聊”；要表达“无聊”应该用 boring。
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令人发腻的甜味
The cake's cloying sweetness made it hard to eat more than a bite.
蛋糕甜得发腻，让人很难多咬一口。
过分煽情；腻人的多愁善感
The film's cloying sentimentality left many viewers rolling their eyes.
这部电影过分煽情，让许多观众翻白眼。
甜腻的香味
The cloying fragrance of the room gave me a headache.
房间里甜腻的香味让我头疼。
令人腻烦的语气
Her cloying tone of praise sounded insincere.
她那甜腻的赞美语气听起来很不真诚。
Use cloying naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把joy的j换成cl就成cloy，快乐过了头，反而腻烦倒胃口。
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、literary criticism、food reviews cloying 是比较书面的用词，多用于正式写作、文学或文艺评论中，也可用于描述食物或情感，表示因过量而令人腻烦。日常口语中不太常用，口语里更常说 too sweet 或 sickly 之类。这个词通常带有负面评价色彩。
多含贬义，表示因过量或过度而令人厌烦、倒胃口。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.