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.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
• VERB 盖满;完全覆盖
  Things thatsmothersomething cover it completely.
  1. 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。
• VERB 宠爱;溺爱
  If yousmothersomeone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.
  1. 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。
  2. ...a smothering, overprotective mother.
     对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...smothered giggles.
     忍住的咯咯笑
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

adj

• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
  1. the choking June dust
  2. the smothering soft voices
  3. smothering heat
  4. the room was suffocating--hot and airless
  Synonym:suffocatingsuffocative

双语例句

• And that is what is smothering our revolution.
  也就是这个官僚淹毙掉我们的革命。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Gas smothering system in cargo space
  货舱气体窒息灭火系统
• 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。
• It was a global smothering of generosity.
  这个全球性的慷慨之举令人窒息。
• 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。
• Put out small fires out by smothering it with baking soda.
  用小苏打窒息灭小规模的火灾。
• Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam;
  有时以窒息的浪花，掩着圣容；