smother的中文翻译是什么意思
smother
v. （使）窒息，（使）透不过气; 遮掩; 抑制
smother的柯林斯释义
VERB将(火)闷熄
If you smother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.
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
To smother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.
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 that smother something cover it completely.
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 you smother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.
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。
...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 you smother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.
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。
...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 process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.
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。
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。
smother的英文释义
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
smother的场景例句
We tried to smother our laughter.
我们强忍住笑.
They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.
他们谎称她是意外死亡以掩盖谋杀事实.
Fire fighters have to smother oil fires with a blanket of powder or foam.
消防战士们在灭这种火的时候,用各种可能的粉末或泡沫.
He had to smother a giggle.
他得抑制住自己,不咯咯地笑出声来.
In some of Jame's fiction motive seems to smother event.
在詹姆斯的一些小说里动机似乎把情节掩盖住了.