smother

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英[?sm?e?(r)]
美[?sm?e?r]

基本釋義

v.
(使)窒息,(使)透不過氣; 遮掩; 抑制

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

He smothered the baby with a pillow.

他用枕頭把嬰兒悶死了。

牛津詞典

a rich dessert smothered in cream

涂了厚厚一層奶油的多脂甜點(diǎn)

牛津詞典

She smothered him with kisses.

她劈頭蓋腦給他一通狂吻。

牛津詞典

to smother a yawn/giggle/grin

把哈欠忍了回去;憋住不笑出聲來(lái);剛想張嘴笑又收了回去

牛津詞典

The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.

反對(duì)黨的聲音被有效地壓制了下去。

牛津詞典

Her husband was very loving, but she felt smothered.

丈夫?qū)λ侔銓檺?,但這讓她覺得不自在。

牛津詞典

He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.

他試圖用毯子把火撲滅。

牛津詞典

The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.

女孩的父母試圖撲滅大火的時(shí)候也被燒傷了。

A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital.

一位父親在醫(yī)院里企圖捂死自己 6 周大的兒子的情景被秘密地拍了下來(lái)。

Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.

一旦灌木叢開始遮住這些小苗,我們就得把它們移走。

She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love.

她十分疼愛自己的孩子,幾乎到了溺愛的程度。

...a smothering, overprotective mother.

對(duì)孩子過分溺愛、過度保護(hù)的母親

She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.

她抑制著心中的自憐,將滿腔的憐憫之情都傾注在了他的身上。

...smothered giggles.

忍住的咯咯笑

Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...

在被占領(lǐng)期間法國(guó)思想界受到了壓制。

The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.

波蘭和匈牙利的債務(wù)正開始扼殺改革的進(jìn)程。

We tried to smother our laughter.

我們強(qiáng)忍住笑.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.

他們謊稱她是意外死亡以掩蓋謀殺事實(shí).

《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

Fire fighters have to smother oil fires with a blanket of powder or foam.

消防戰(zhàn)士們?cè)跍邕@種火的時(shí)候,用各種可能的粉末或泡沫.

期刊摘選

He had to smother a giggle.

他得抑制住自己,不咯咯地笑出聲來(lái).

期刊摘選

In some of Jame's fiction motive seems to smother event.

在詹姆斯的一些小說里動(dòng)機(jī)似乎把情節(jié)掩蓋住了.

辭典例句

He could hardly smother his anger.

他幾乎抑制不住他的憤怒之情.

辭典例句

As teammates sprinted to smother him in an ecstatic scrum, several Ghanaians slumped to the field.

當(dāng)隊(duì)友們狂喜地沖過去擁著他的時(shí)候, 幾名加納人跪在了場(chǎng)地上.

期刊摘選

'Silver, sir,'returned the captain;'he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up.

“ 希爾弗, 先生, ” 船長(zhǎng)回答說, “ 他和你我一樣急于讓事態(tài)平息下來(lái).

英漢文學(xué) - 金銀島

He tried to smother up the factors.

他力圖掩蓋事實(shí).

期刊摘選

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. a confused multitude of things

  • 2. a stifling cloud of smoke

Verb
  • 1. envelop completely;

    "smother the meat in gravy"

  • 2. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;

    "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"

    "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"

  • 3. conceal or hide;

    "smother a yawn"

    "muffle one's anger"

    "strangle a yawn"

  • 4. form an impenetrable cover over;

    "the butter cream smothered the cake"

  • 5. deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion;

    "smother fires"

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