suffocates

英 [ˈsʌfəkeɪts]

美 [ˈsʌfəkeɪts]

v.  (使)窒息而死; (把…)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气
suffocate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)窒息而死;(把…)闷死
  If someonesuffocatesoris suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
  1. He either suffocated, or froze to death...
     他要么是闷死的，要么是冻死的。
  2. They were suffocated as they slept.
     他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• V-ERG (使)呼吸困难;(使)憋闷
  If you say that youare suffocatingor that somethingis suffocatingyou, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
  1. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
     这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
  2. The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
     房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• V-ERG (受)束缚;(受)扼制
  You say that a person or thingis suffocating, or that somethingis suffocatingthem, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
  1. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
     和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
  2. The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
     总督的计划可能会造成上百万人失业，并束缚经济发展。

双语例句

• Girl suffocates in locked school bus.
  女童闷死校车内。
• To solve the problem that lack of network capabilities suffocates the evolution of network service, MPLS is proposed as a kind of transmission& switching technology, which has lower limitation of evolution and supports higher bandwidth.
  为解决因网络容量有限而使得网络业务发展缓慢的问题，一个支持高带宽、业务发展受限少的传输交换技术&MPLS应运而生。
• In a fit of despair and self-loathing, he suffocates the vegetable with a pillow, eats and spits out parts, then furiously gouges out its features before ravenously consuming the rest and bursting into sobs.
  在一阵绝望与自我厌恶的侵袭之下，他用枕头闷死了高丽菜，吃了一口又吐出来，疯狂地割掉它的脸，狼吞虎咽地吃掉了剩下的部分，最后爆发出哭泣。
• Cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more, and then she'll die too well, gotta go, I'm almost at the bridge now.
  我要让她更痛苦，让她窒息而死。好了，我行动了，快到桥上了。
• Because of this, his historical view still contains rich cycle theory, and which suffocates his development and his evolution concept, which is also the reason why his development and evolution theory does not leave clear impression for later generations.
  正因如此，他的历史观还保有了浓厚的循环论色彩，这种循环论将他的发展和进化论观念窒息住了，以至于他的发展和进化论并没有给后人留下鲜明的印象。
• This learning style suffocates students 'thought and intelligence, and ruins their interests and enthusiasm;
  这种学习窒息人的思维和智力，摧残人的学习兴趣和热情。
• Suddenly he swallows up the pipe and accidently scorches the beauty and the beast and suffocates to death.
  突然它吞下笛子，又不小心把公主与我们的英雄烧成了炭，然后它自己噎死了。
• Cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more, and then she'll die too
  因为窒息而死更痛苦，不管怎样她死是迟早的事
• Reason suffocates human mind and sterilizes the society; however, it is just the counterwork of reason that keeps the overflow of energy within a healthy limit.
  理性压抑人的思想，阻碍社会的发展，但正是理性的对抗使得极端的能量在合理的界限内发挥作用。
• Monopoly precludes competition, suffocates the vigor of economy, and it makes the allocation function of market system mechanism becomes failure.
  垄断妨碍竞争，窒息经济活力，使市场机制配置资源的功能失灵。