smother

释义

v.（使）窒息，（使）透不过气; 遮掩; 抑制

大小写变形: Smother

词态变化

第三人称单数 :   smothers ; 过去式 :   smothered ; 过去分词 :   smothered ; 现在分词 :   smothering ;

实用场景例句

Flames engulfed the parents when the girl's mother and father attempted to smother the fire.

女孩的父母试图扑灭火焰时被大火吞没了。

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A hidden camera filmed a man trying to smother his newborn baby in the hospital room.

一部隐藏的摄像机拍摄到一名男子试图在病房里闷死他的新生儿。

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The delicate sprouts found themselves smothered beneath the invasive creepers, leaving us no choice but to relocate them.

这些脆弱的嫩芽被入侵的藤蔓植物所窒息，迫使我们不得不迁移它们。

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The children were smothered by her overwhelming display of maternal love.

孩子们被她那溢于言表的母爱所淹没。

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The child is smothered by an excessively doting mother who shields him from every possible hardship.

这个孩子被一位过分溺爱的母亲窒息，她将他与所有可能的困难隔绝开来。

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Overwhelmed by compassion for him, she deliberately smothered her own feelings of self-pity.

她刻意抑制着自己的自怜情绪，内心却对他充满了怜悯。

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Stifled laughter escaped through smothered breaths.

通过压抑的呼吸中漏出被忍住的轻笑。

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The intellectual vigor of France was stifled by the tyrannical governance during that era.

法国的思想活力在那段时期被专制统治所扼杀。

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Escalating economic pressures in Poland and Hungary are gradually smothering the progress of reform initiatives.

波兰和匈牙利不断升级的经济压力正逐渐扼杀改革措施的进展。

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He smothered the flames with a thick blanket.

他用厚毯子把火焰扑灭了。

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a juicy steak smothered in gravy

涂了厚厚一层肉汁的多汁牛排

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She smothered the baby with blankets to keep him warm.

她用毯子把婴儿裹得严严实实的，让他保持温暖。

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to smother a scream/sigh/sob

强忍住尖叫；压抑叹息声；忍住啜泣

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The protests of the activists were quickly smothered by the authorities.

活动人士的抗议很快被当局压制了下去。

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She adored her parents, but their constant attention made her feel smothered.

她深爱她的父母，但他们无微不至的关心让她感到窒息。

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He struggled to smother the embers with his coat.

他努力用外套把余烬闷熄。

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We tried to smother our laughter.

我们强忍住笑.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.

他们谎称她是意外死亡以掩盖谋杀事实.

《简明英汉词典》

英英释义

Noun

1. a confused multitude of things

2. a stifling cloud of smoke

Verb

1. envelop completely;

"smother the meat in gravy"

2. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;

"Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"

"The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

3. conceal or hide;

"smother a yawn"

"muffle one's anger"

"strangle a yawn"

4. form an impenetrable cover over;

"the butter cream smothered the cake"

5. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion;

"smother fires"