smothering的中文翻译是什么意思

smothering

US/'smʌðərɪŋ/
UK/'smʌðərɪŋ/

v. (使)窒息, (使)透不过气( smother的现在分词 ); 覆盖; 忍住; 抑制

smothering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。

smothering英文释义

Adjective

1. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat;

  • the choking June dust
  • the smothering soft voices
  • smothering heat
  • the room was suffocating--hot and airless

smothering场景例句

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。

He laughed triumphantly, and silenced her by manly smothering.

他胜利地微笑着, 以男人咄咄逼人的气势使她哑口无言.

He wrapped the coat around her head, smothering the flames.

他用上衣包住她的头, 熄灭了火.

I'm smothering in this stuffy room.

在这个闷热的房间里我透不过气来.

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.

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