stifles

英 [ˈstaɪflz]

美 [ˈstaɪflz]

v.  压制; 扼杀; 阻止; 抑制; (使)窒息，无法自如地呼吸，感觉窒闷
stifle的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
  If someonestiflessomething you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing.
  1. Regulations on children stifled creativity...
     给孩子们定的各种规矩扼杀了他们的创造力。
  2. Critics have accused the US of trying to stifle debate.
     批评家指责美国试图压制争论。
• VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
  If youstiflea yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing.
  1. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn...
     她忍不住打了个哈欠。
  2. His hand shot to his mouth to stifle a giggle.
     他赶紧捂住嘴，不让自己笑出声来。
• VERB 克制;压抑
  If youstifleyour natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way.
  1. It is best to stifle curiosity and leave birds' nests alone...
     最好能克制住好奇心，不要去碰鸟巢。
  2. He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her.
     他压抑住想要抓住艾薇摇晃她的冲动。

双语例句

• This mist of heavy incense stifles my heart.
  香烟的浓雾窒塞了我的心。
• Critics blamed everything from an education system that stifles imagination to censorship.
  批评人士抨击了很多方面，从遏制想象力的教育体制，到现行的审查制度。
• More than 80 per cent of senior executives of big companies in the region surveyed cited "domestic legislation that stifles foreign ownership" and widely different management cultures across Asia as most likely to derail cross-border acquisitions in the next 12 months.
  在接受调查的亚洲大公司高管中，有80%以上的人表示，未来12个月内，“抑制外国所有权的国内立法”和亚洲各地各有不同的管理文化，最可能影响跨国收购。
• By stopping speech even before it is uttered, government stifles discussion and dissent.
  政府通过在言论发表之前就予以制止的做法，扼杀讨论和异议。
• Some of my foreign friends suggested that such management stifles creativity and restricts freedom.
  我的一些外国朋友说这样的管理是会窒息创造力和束服自由的。
• One instruction sequence of MSIL might be very amenable to optimization, whereas another ( semantically equivalent) sequence stifles optimization.
  一个MSIL指令序列也许能够很好地进行优化，但另一个（语义上等同的）序列却可能抑制优化。
• The rear legs are broad and heavily muscled through the thighs; stifles moderately bent; hock joints are moderately bent and well let down.
  后座腿广阔和重肌透过大腿；扼杀中度排架；福接头中度执意要和好失望。
• The upper thighs are well-muscled and powerful, the stifles well bent, the hock joint well defined and set low to the ground.
  后腿上部肌肉发达，强有力，后腿膝关节充分弯曲，裸关节踝关节轮廓分明，距地的位置较低。
• And I guess if we were to take a random sample of any group of people on the planet, now their situation might be one that stifles creativity, but as human beings they are creative.
  如果我们随机挑选地球上的一群人，他们面临的共同问题可能就是创造力被扼杀了，因为作为人类，他们本该具有创造力。
• Uranus may fear and hate Saturn because the latter stifles and frustrates his freedom;
  天王星可能害怕和憎恨土星因为后者窒息和挫败他的自由；