英语释义

• characterized by oppressive heat and humidity;

  "the summer was sultry and oppressive"

  "the stifling atmosphere"

  "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority;

  "the suppression of heresy"

  "the quelling of the rebellion"

  "the stifling of all dissent"

片语

stifling heat闷热

stifling bomb窒息弹

Stifling Dagger梗塞之刃

Stifling Sobs令人窒息呜咽

stifling talents人才埋没

stifling hot闷热

stifling A李永智

stifling pump堵泵

fracturing使破裂；粉碎（fracture的ing形式）

suffocating令人窒息的；使人呼吸困难的；憋气的（suffocate的ing形式）

tedious沉闷的；冗长乏味的

Stifling Laughter令人窒息笑声

英汉例句

• youths in white uniforms hang around in the dusty compound in the stifling afternoon heat.

  在令人窒息的下午热浪中，穿着白色制服的年轻人们聚集在满是灰尘的操场上。

• a generation from now it may be too late to find an answer and perhaps impossible, in the stifling collective climate of that future time, even to ask the question.

  或许一代人解决不了，或许在将来令人窒息的大众氛围下这种问题都不能提出来。

• harry potter is an orphan who has been raised in a stifling suburban house. at the age of 11 he is surprised to get an invitation to attend hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.

  哈利.波特在城郊一个让人窒息的家庭长大，11岁那年收到霍格沃兹魔法学校的入学通知，倍感惊奇。

• you will have to learn how to balance clarity and precision, so that your ideas come across without either ambiguity or stifling formality.

  你要学会平衡精确与清楚的关系，这样你才能避免内容含糊或形式沉闷。

• study offered me entry to new worlds far from the stifling atmosphere of my mother「s emotional blackmail.

  学习提供给我开启认识新世界大门的钥匙并且远离了我的妈妈情绪化的让人窒息的勒索般的氛围。

• but the big payoff is in keeping the most talented executives, who would be the first to leave a stifling environment -- only to be replaced by people who are just in it for a paycheck, he says.

  但是格里尼认为，最大的回报在于，这么做可以为公司留住最有才干的高级管理人员。 如果是在沉闷的环境中，这些高管们可能最早选择离开，结果只能是由那些只为领薪水的人顶替。

• the world bank is accusing israel of stifling the palestinian economy.

  世界银行指责以色列窒息巴勒斯坦的经济。

• greece and ireland have made heroic budget cuts. greece is trying hard to free up its rigid economy. portugal has lagged in scrapping stifling rules, but its fiscal tightening is bold.

  希腊和爱尔兰纷纷缩减财政预算，行为可真为大胆，希腊尽力从低迷经济走出来，葡萄牙迟迟没有废除窒息规则，但财政紧缩相当大胆。

• it is a topic heavy to the point of stifling that wealth inequality in society is being expanded to university campuses.

  社会的贫富问题扩散到大学校园，这是一个沉重得让人窒息的话题。

• they cheered the absence of the stifling tents in which they studied last spring.

  他们为令人窒息的帐篷的消失而欢呼，他们上个春天曾在其中学习。

• security at america’s airports will have to be brought up to the same stifling standards as those 【endured】 in the rest of the developed world.

  美国的机场安检将会提升到同样令人窒息的标準，其他的发达国家同样也得如此。

• prime minister manmohan singh - then the country’s finance minister - lifted restrictions on foreign investors, relaxed stifling controls on domestic industry and slashed taxes.

  后来担任财政部长的总理曼莫汉·辛格，取消了对外国投资者的限制，放松了对国内产业令人窒息的管制，并实行减税。

• our conversations became stifling – in the end i stopped talking about them altogether because i wasn’t getting the refuge i wanted.

  于是我们的对话变得令人窒息--最后我不得不停止说我心中的痛苦，因为我根本没有得到心中想要的慰藉。

• or the stifling presence of the understanding that there are more desirable paths that you would like to take in life?

  或者是令人窒息地意识到：有一条你更加渴望选择的人生道路？

• they saw how difficult it was for women to break out of the stifling laws and stereotypes of the time,” says lutz.

  他们看到对于女性来说打破令人窒息的法律和过时的陈腔滥调有多困难。”鲁特茨说。

• otherwise a bright, brash and sometimes stifling city, once every autumn—on the middle day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar—seoul becomes a ghost town.

  别看平常首尔是一个喧嚣、快节奏甚至有时令人窒息的城市，可每年一到了阴历八月十五，首尔一下子便冷清了下来。

• our conversations became stifling – in the end i stopped talking about them altogether because i wasn」t getting the refuge i wanted.

  我们的对话变得非常沉闷——到最后我停止了诉说，因为我没有寻找到我的避难所。

• working in stifling tents filled with patients, the team tended to those whose doctors had left and were in need of follow-up care.

  在满是病人令人窒息的帐篷里工作，这个护理小组首先考虑那些医生已经离开、又急需后续护理的病人。

• in such spots one can understand that if the greeks knew despair, they always did so through beauty and its stifling quality.

  面对此情此景，你就会明白，倘若希腊之民知晓绝望，那他们必是借籍美和它令人窒息的特质而获取的。

• is there a mountain of debt on top of you, stifling the lifestyle that you thought you would have?

  还是你有巨额债务？还是你将陷入令人窒息的生活方式？

• in the stifling heat, boys with wooden sticks checked the few cars on the streets.

  在令人窒息的酷热中，携带木棍的少年检查着街上仅有的数辆汽车。

• portugal has lagged in scrapping stifling rules, but its fiscal tightening is bold.

  葡萄牙虽然在其令人窒息的规定的废除上步伐缓慢，但是其财政紧缩却是相当的给力。

相似词

sultry闷热的；狂暴的；淫蕩的

constraint[数] 约束；局促，态度不自然；强制

stuffy闷热的；古板的；不通气的