suffocate
vt.& vi. (使某人)窒息而死; (將某人)悶死; 阻礙
vi. 呼吸困難,窒息; 受扼制; 受阻(發展不了)
If someone suffocates or is suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
He either suffocated, or froze to death...
他要麼是悶死的,要麼是凍死的。
They were suffocated as they slept.
他們睡覺時窒息而死。
If you say that you are suffocating or that something is suffocating you, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
這樣好些了,我剛才在那個小房間裡快悶死了。
The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
房間裡密不透風,憋得她喘不上氣來。
You say that a person or thing is suffocating, or that something is suffocating them, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
和父母呆了幾個星期後,她感到自己毫無自由。
The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
總督的計劃可能會造成上百萬人失業,並束縛經濟發展。
1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing;
2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of;
3. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled;
4. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of;
5. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen;
6. feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air;
7. struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake;
But they do suffocate from a lack of air.
但它們確實也會因為缺少空氣而窒息.
I have a tight grasp of the feelings and let him suffocate you.
我有一個嚴格把握的感情,讓他窒息您.
Suffocate and send to until the last days of one's life talented poetess only!
無非是把有點才氣的女詩人窒息致死而後已!
The stale air made us suffocate.
渾濁的空氣使我們感到窒息.
If you stayed seated, he said, you'd suffocate.
如果你還留在座位上, 他說, 你就窒息了.