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

• To the extent that it is genuine, my caring is not a smothering of the person or a possessive clinging.
  只要这种关心是真诚的，那么它就不会是某种压抑或占有性的依附。
• 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。
• Put out small fires out by smothering it with baking soda.
  用小苏打窒息灭小规模的火灾。
• 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。
• But Mr Patel warns that the embrace can become smothering.
  但帕特尔警告，中国人的拥抱可能会令人喘不过气来。
• 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。
• We are smothering in this stuffy room.
  我们在这不通风的房间里正透不过气来。
• Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam;
  有时以窒息的浪花，掩着圣容；
• Gas smothering system in cargo space
  货舱气体窒息灭火系统
• 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。