英语释义

• conceal or hide;

  "smother a yawn"

  "muffle one's anger"

  "strangle a yawn"

• 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"

• deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion;

  "smother fires"

• form an impenetrable cover over;

  "the butter cream smothered the cake"

• envelop completely;

  "smother the meat in gravy"

• a stifling cloud of smoke

• a confused multitude of things

片语

When Julie Smother Arrived当朱莉母亲时

asphyxiant窒息性的

resist抵抗；忍耐，忍住

restrain抑制，控制；约束；制止

choke窒息；噎；[动力] 阻气门

gel smother凝胶灭火

smother reasonable suggestions压制合理化建议

smother up窒息

smother crops窒息作物

to smother a yawn忍住呵欠

stay逗留；停止；支柱

steam smother蒸气窒息

smother up a scandal掩盖丑闻

disorderly and unsystematic racket smother杂乱无章

control控制；管理；抑制

英汉例句

• and there「s no doubt that the same party cadres that allowed beijing」s cultural flowering to happen still have the ability to smother the creative explosion if it gets out of hand.

  毫无疑问，那些允许北京文化繁荣景象发生的官僚仍然有能力使这次创意大爆发胎死腹中。

• if policies were all, mrs clinton could smother the obama challenge under a pile of policy papers.

  如果政策代表全部的话，克林顿夫人便能让奥巴马的挑战在一堆政策文档下窒息。

• a mountain slope abutting the town had shown a crack, leading to fears it could smother part of the city in a landslide.

  与县城相邻的一座山坡上曾出现裂缝，人们担心山体滑坡会掩埋部分城区。

• the third factor is the possibility that political tensions will smother thailand「s green shoots.

  第三个因素是政局的紧张可能会扼杀泰国的希望之苗。

• i just managed to smother a yawn.

  我刚设法忍住了一个呵欠。

• musharraf’s sinking popularity has spurred speculation that he might declare a state of emergency to smother vocal opposition.

  穆沙拉夫声望的下降促使他想发表一份紧急声明来遏制那些反对的声音。

• although unrefined crude isn」t very toxic, it「s heavy, and if it coats the wings of birds, it will eventually smother them.

  虽说未精炼的原油毒性不是很强，但还是很重的。如果它包裹住鸟翼，将最终会使鸟窒息。

• remind yourself that you’re not the only one your kids are home to see. try not to smother them.

  提醒自己孩子回家来要看的人不止自己一个，尽量不要过度要求学生。

• if you grew up without love, smother your children with it.

  如果你在一个缺少唉的环境下长大，别让你的孩子再重蹈覆辙。

• engineers had spent days pumping heavy drilling fluid into the leaking well head on the ocean floor in a high-pressure bid to smother the gushing crude and ultimately seal the well with cement.

  工程师们数日来一直向海底的泄漏油井泵入大量的鉆探泥浆，希望用高压堵住喷涌的原油，最后用水泥封死油井。

• if you stop weeding your garden the weeds will eventually smother it, and soon a re-plant will look easier than a pruning.

  很快，重新种植看起来会比修剪更简单。

• customers have been known to smother xiaojies because they are afraid to let people know what they have been doing.

  顾客喜欢那种不问身份的小姐，因为他们害怕别人知到他做过的事。

• the mischief that it does at present is produced by our efforts to ignore it, or to smother it under a heap of sentimental lies and false pretences.

  目前，通过我们努力的忽略这个事实，亦或是把事实掩盖在一堆情感谎言和虚假伪装之下，这出可笑的闹剧在不断地上演着。

• he didn’t stare into her eyes or smother her the way barry had, but he made it clear that he was available.

  他并没有象巴里那样一直凝视她的眼睛或让她透不过气来，但他很明显非常在乎她。

• many parents indulge their kids, smother them with love and deny them nothing.

  许多父母放纵孩子，溺爱小孩，什么都答应他们。

• news stories about the huge rise in skin cancer have made many women afraid to go out in the sun or, if they do, they smother themselves head-to-toe in sun block.

  新闻里对阳光照射会导致皮肤癌的大肆报道让女人对沐浴在阳光下赶到恐惧不已，如果非这样做不可的话，她们会用防晒霜武装自己，让从头到脚的皮肤透不过气。

• the release of this 「shadow inventory」 could smother the recovery before it gathers speed.

  这些「影子库存」的释放或许会在经济复苏加速之前釜底抽薪。

• if the oil reaches deeper into louisiana」s wetlands, it could smother the oyster beds there, said patrick banks, oyster program manager for the louisiana department of wildlife and fisheries.

  路易斯安那州野生生物和渔业部的牡蛎项目经理帕特里克·班克斯表示说，如果泄漏的原油深入了路易斯安那湿地，将会对那里的牡蛎养殖场带来灭顶之灾；

• spanish also comes with a heavy load of beautiful baggage that will smother any journalist writing in english.

  西班牙语也一样，有太多不利于英文写作的修饰语。

• isn「t it strange, republicans retort, that people like mr waxman, who profess to care about working americans, cheer on bureaucrats determined to smother business and destroy jobs?

  共和党则声称，像mrwaxman这样宣称关心美国人就业问题却为誓要抑制美国企业成长减少就业的官僚们吶喊助威。

• but tax policy should aim to do more than smother protest: it should also seek to raise the most money with the least distortion to economic activity.

  但税收政策不能只是在平息「鹅叫」方面下功夫，而是要在经济活动中用最少的怪招增加更多的财富。

• perhaps a third of crops rot on roadsides and in warehouses before anyone has a chance to smother them in spices and wolf them with chapatis.

  也许三分之一的粮食在有人有机会享用和吃掉前就烂在了道边和仓库里。

• as carter left the court, a teammate draped a towel on carter」s head, the way you「d use a towel to smother a fire.

  当卡特下场的时候，一个队友用毛巾遮住了他的头，就像用毛巾熄火一样。

• the spread threatens to smother vegetation that is a source of food for a variety of animals, raising concerns about the stability of the ecosystem」s food chain.

  植物是各类动物的食源，外来者蔓延的威胁抑制它们生长，生态系统食物链的稳定性日渐堪忧。

相似词

suppress抑制；镇压；废止

stifle（马等的）后膝关节；（马等的）[动] 后膝关节病

asphyxiate窒息

suffocate压制，阻碍；使……窒息

choke窒息；噎；[动力] 阻气门

suppress抑制；镇压；废止

stifle（马等的）后膝关节；（马等的）[动] 后膝关节病

damp潮湿的

silence沉默；寂静；缄默；不谈；无声状态

choke窒息；噎；[动力] 阻气门

repress抑制；镇压

dampen潮湿；丧气

inhibit抑制；禁止

strangle把……勒死；使哽咽，使窒息；掐死，扼死；抑制；妨碍，阻止

extinguish熄灭；压制；偿清

quell(Quell)人名；(捷)奎尔；(西)克利

oppress压迫，压抑；使……烦恼；使……感到沉重

muffle低沉的声音；消声器；包裹物（如头巾，围巾等）；唇鼻部

asphyxiate窒息

suffocate压制，阻碍；使……窒息

相反词

breathe呼吸；使喘息；流露；低声说

kindle点燃；着火；激起；照亮，（使）发亮；激动起来；（兔）产仔