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

• Old Tom snuffed out last weekend.
  老汤姆上个周末死了。
• Thousands of lives were snuffed out during the famine.
  饥荒夺去了成千上万人的生命。
• He leant forward and snuffed the candle.
  他俯下身掐灭了蜡烛。
• It can be smoked, sucked, chewed or snuffed.
  可以抽吸、咀嚼或鼻吸。
• The men in the cabin snuffed the candle and went to sleep.
  住在小屋里的人熄灭了蜡烛去睡觉了。
• Their cat snuffed it last friday.
  他家的猫上星期五死了。
• She smoked and snuffed almost to the hour of her death.
  她终生抽烟和吸鼻烟几乎到临终的时刻为止。
• His hopes were nearly snuffed out.
  他的希望几乎都被打破了。
• 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。
• At the end of the poem, the embers of my fire are about to be snuffed out.
  在诗的结尾，我生命之火的余烬即将熄灭。