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

• He accused his mother of smothering him as a child.
  他指责母亲把他当作孩子来溺爱。
• We are smothering in this stuffy room.
  我们在这不通风的房间里正透不过气来。
• The storm never let up, continuing to swallow everything with smothering force.
  而风势仍不减弱，以铺天盖地之势席卷、吞没着一切。
• It was a global smothering of generosity.
  这个全球性的慷慨之举令人窒息。
• Washington's challenge now lies in finding ways to nurture and encourage these still fragile trends without smothering them in a triumphalist embrace.
  华盛顿目前面临的挑战在于寻找各种途径以培育和鼓励这些依然还显得脆弱的趋势，而不是用胜利者的拥抱将其窒息。
• They fell over the dirty face of a wounded man who feebly tried to turn his head to escape from their smothering folds.
  这裙子浇在一个伤兵的脏脸上，他虚弱地转着头，想躲避裙的拂扰。
• They also fear the rising pressures on the budget could lead to a smothering of consumer spending and exports which have kept the economy afloat so far.
  他们还担心，不断上升的预算压力可能会抑制消费支出和出口，而这两者迄今为止维系了俄经济的正常运行。
• Gas smothering system in cargo space
  货舱气体窒息灭火系统
• Put out small fires out by smothering it with baking soda.
  用小苏打窒息灭小规模的火灾。
• 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。