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Smother Verb Cover 例:The 例:She 英[ˈsmʌðə(R 美[ˈsmʌðɚ V.(使)窒息,(使)透不过气;遮掩;抑制;N.窒息物;浓烟,浓雾

单词 smother
音标
英[ˈsmʌðə(r)] 美[ˈsmʌðɚ]
解释
v.(使)窒息,(使)透不过气;遮掩;抑制;n.窒息物;浓烟,浓雾;
例句

VERB
将(火)闷熄
If you smother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.
例: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.
例: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.
例: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.
例: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。
例:...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.
例: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。
例:...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.
例: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。
例: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。
变形
third:smothers~done:smothered~ing:smothering~past:smothered~

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