snuffed

英 [snʌft]

美 [snʌft]

v.  掐灭，闷熄，熄灭(小火苗); 出声地嗅
snuff的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• 鼻烟
  Snuffis powdered tobacco which people take by breathing it in quickly through their nose.
• VERB 断气;死去
  If someonesnuffs it, they die.
  1. He thought he was about to snuff it.
     他觉得自己快要咽气了。

双语例句

• The dog snuffed the scent of the fox.
  狗闻到了狐狸的臭迹。
• One by one she snuffed the candles.
  她把蜡烛一支支地熄灭。
• When the sixth had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers.
  第六响敲过以后，他用手指掐熄了烛芯。
• The candle guttered and snuffed out.
  蜡烛在风中淌蜡，终于熄掉了。
• Like candles guttering in the wind, three of the worlds eight subspecies of tigers have been snuffed out.
  像风中燃烧的蜡烛，世界上八个老虎的属种已经有三个灭绝了。
• Thousands of lives were snuffed out during the famine.
  饥荒夺去了成千上万人的生命。
• In the end they hoped his life would be snuffed out so he wouldn't suffer any more.
  最后他们希望他的生命能熄灭，这样他就不用再忍受痛苦了。
• The greatest secret agent england's ever had snuffed out in an instant.
  英国有史以来最伟大的特工转眼间就毙命了。
• Harry, I dreaded beyond all things the knowledge that it had been I who brought about her death, not merely through my arrogance and stupidity, but that I actually struck the blow that snuffed out her life.
  哈利，我从心底最害怕的是得知是我造成了她的死亡，不仅是由于我的狂傲和愚蠢，而且还是我朝她发出了那致命的一击。
• Every time a new flicker of resistance appeared, the government snuffed it out
  一旦有抵抗的苗头出现时，政府总是迅速地加以消灭。