smother的中文翻譯是什麼意思
smother
v. （使）窒息，（使）透不過氣; 遮掩; 抑制
smother的柯林斯釋義
VERB將(火)悶熄
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.
女孩的父母試圖撲滅大火的時候也被燒傷了。
VERB使…透不過氣來;使…窒息;悶死
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.
一位父親在醫院裡企圖捂死自己 6 周大的兒子的情景被秘密地拍了下來。
VERB蓋滿;完全覆蓋
Things that smother something cover it completely.
Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
一旦灌木叢開始遮住這些小苗，我們就得把它們移走。
VERB寵愛;溺愛
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.
她十分疼愛自己的孩子，幾乎到了溺愛的程度。
...a smothering, overprotective mother.
對孩子過分溺愛、過度保護的母親
VERB壓抑，控制(感情或反應)
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.
她抑制著心中的自憐，將滿腔的憐憫之情都傾注在了他的身上。
...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑
VERB壓制，鉗制，扼殺，鎮壓 (某種活動或過程)
If an activity or process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.
Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...
在被佔領期間法國思想界受到了壓制。
The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.
波蘭和匈牙利的債務正開始扼殺改革的程序。
smother的英文釋義
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的場景例句
We tried to smother our laughter.
我們強忍住笑.
They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.
他們謊稱她是意外死亡以掩蓋謀殺事實.
Fire fighters have to smother oil fires with a blanket of powder or foam.
消防戰士們在滅這種火的時候,用各種可能的粉末或泡沫.
He had to smother a giggle.
他得抑制住自己,不咯咯地笑出聲來.
In some of Jame's fiction motive seems to smother event.
在詹姆斯的一些小說裡動機似乎把情節掩蓋住了.