smothering
英 [ˈsmʌðərɪŋ]
美 [ˈsmʌðərɪŋ]
v. 使窒息而死; 闷死; (用某物)厚厚地覆盖; 抑制; 扼杀; 忍住
smother的现在分词
现在分词:smothering
BNC.38517 / COCA.27144
柯林斯词典
- VERB 将(火)闷熄
If yousmothera fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.- The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.
女孩的父母试图扑灭大火的时候也被烧伤了。
- The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.
- VERB 使…透不过气来;使…窒息;闷死
Tosmothersomeone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.- A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital.
一位父亲在医院里企图捂死自己 6 周大的儿子的情景被秘密地拍了下来。
- A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital.
- VERB 盖满;完全覆盖
Things thatsmothersomething cover it completely.- Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
一旦灌木丛开始遮住这些小苗,我们就得把它们移走。
- Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
- VERB 宠爱;溺爱
If yousmothersomeone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.- She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love.
她十分疼爱自己的孩子,几乎到了溺爱的程度。 - ...a smothering, overprotective mother.
对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲
- She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love.
- VERB 压抑,控制(感情或反应)
If yousmotheran emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.- She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
她抑制着心中的自怜,将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。 - ...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑
- She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
- VERB 压制,钳制,扼杀,镇压 (某种活动或过程)
If an activity or processis smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.- Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...
在被占领期间法国思想界受到了压制。 - The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.
波兰和匈牙利的债务正开始扼杀改革的进程。
- Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...
英英释义
adj
- causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
- the choking June dust
- the smothering soft voices
- smothering heat
- the room was suffocating--hot and airless
双语例句
- I suspect that part of your nervous problem may be the smothering attitude of your family and you need to get out and try your wings a bit.
我想你胆小的原因部分是由于你家人的那种令人窒息的态度,你需要摆脱出来发挥自己的才能。 - They also fear the rising pressures on the budget could lead to a smothering of consumer spending and exports which have kept the economy afloat so far.
他们还担心,不断上升的预算压力可能会抑制消费支出和出口,而这两者迄今为止维系了俄经济的正常运行。 - But the move served as a reminder that Beijing remains focused on smothering inflation, despite concern that global market turmoil could result in a sharp economic slowdown in China.
但这次的行动提醒人们:北京方面仍聚焦于遏制通胀,尽管有人担忧全球市场动荡可能造成中国经济急剧放缓。 - Because you kissed Nikki while you were smothering her.
因为在你闷住她的时候你还亲了她一下。 - If something makes you angry, express it instead of smothering it with cigarette smoke.
如果你觉得某些事情真的让你生气了,就把它当做是阻止你抽烟的事情吧。 - Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam;
有时以窒息的浪花,掩着圣容; - They fell over the dirty face of a wounded man who feebly tried to turn his head to escape from their smothering folds.
这裙子浇在一个伤兵的脏脸上,他虚弱地转着头,想躲避裙的拂扰。 - And that is what is smothering our revolution.
也就是这个官僚淹毙掉我们的革命。 - Once it has sunk to the bottom of the sea, the oil can kill plants by smothering them.
一旦油沉到海底,它就会覆盖在植物上进而杀死它们。 - A distant or belittling father, an emotionally smothering or needy mother, and in the center a boy with nobody to guide him on the path to manhood.
一个感情上几乎窒息的母亲。中间就是我,没有人指导我如何做男人。