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。 - I'm smothering in this stuffy room. The smoke has almost smothered me.
在这个闷热的房间里我透不过气来。那烟闷得我几乎透不过气来。 - 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。 - In short, Mo Yi reveals us the feelings of smothering, crispation, loneliness and coldness, which he feels in the city life.
简而言之，莫毅向我们表达了他时时感觉到的城市生活：压抑、挛缩、孤独、冷酷。 - And that is what is smothering our revolution.
也就是这个官僚淹毙掉我们的革命。 - Electrical fire needs fire extinguishers, but the smothering agent must be a non-conductor-that is, a material that will not conduct electricity.
由于电引起的火灾需要灭火器，但是灭火的物质必须是绝缘体，也就是不导电的物质。 - He laughed triumphantly, and silenced her by manly smothering.
他胜利地微笑着，以男人咄咄逼人的气势使她哑口无言。 - This person has been a solid source of support for you, Virgo, even if her style is a bit off-putting or smothering at times.
处女，这个人一直是你最坚实的支持者，虽然她的偶尔会稍微有点爱现或者墨迹。 - 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。 - 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。