smothers

英 [ˈsmʌðəz]

美 [ˈsmʌðərz]

v.  使窒息而死; 闷死; (用某物)厚厚地覆盖; 抑制; 扼杀; 忍住
smother的第三人称单数

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。

双语例句

• He always smothers his wife with kindness.
  他对待妻子总是体贴入微。
• Smothers was sitting in a chair and watching television when the unidentified boy fired one round into the back of her head.
  玛丽当时坐在椅子上看电视，男孩从她脑后开了枪。
• History slowly smothers its truth, but hastily struggles to revive it in the terrible penance of pain.
  历史缓慢地将真理窒息，但又仓促地在忏悔巨大痛苦中竭力令其复活。
• The child had just finished playing Grand Theft Auto IV before he fatally shot Marie Smothers, 90, inside a Louisiana mobile home, police said.
  根据警方消息，美国路易斯安那州的一名8岁男孩在玩了侠盗猎车手以后，将同在移动房屋里看护自己的90岁老太太玛丽.马特尔斯开枪打死。
• Yet it can be argued that some perhaps a majority of constituents of the black economy only flourish because officialdom levies too much tax and smothers companies with stifling bureaucracy.
  不过或许有人会说，一些或许是大部分黑色经济领域之所以能够蓬勃发展，唯一的原因在于官方征税过高，用令人窒息的官僚作风遏制了企业的发展。
• Smothers laughingly says being at a bar helps the science go down a little more easily.
  斯马特尔斯则笑着说，在酒吧里学习可以让科学变得不再那么神秘。
• As hot humid air smothers most of the US, temperatures have reached record levels in many localities.
  当湿热空气窒息着美国大部分地区时，很多地区的温度都达到了历史最高水平。
• He criticized the authority-discourse which smothers humanity by the principle of freedom and refuted the ethics principle of traditional culture which suppresses and restricts "human" from various angles by the principle of reason which liberates "human".
  他借启蒙话语中的自由原则批判权力话语对人性的扼杀，借理性原则对人的解放来反对传统文化中的伦理原则对人的种种限制和压抑。
• Mary smothers her children with too much love.
  玛丽溺爱自己的孩子。
• It smothers the creation and prevails autocracy of knowledge;
  扼杀创造，盛行知识专制；