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stifle ['staifl]
基本释义
参考例句
- I'm stifling in this hot room.
我在这么热的房间里要闷死了。 - The smoke fille the room and almost stifle the firemen.
屋里浓烟弥漫呛得消防队员喘不过气来。 - She tried hard to stifle her laughter.
她强忍住笑。 - People will stifle in the absence of air.
缺乏空气之下人们会窒息。 - I am stifling in this close room.
在这个窄狭的房间里面我感到憋闷。
英英解释
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
[同]
knee, stifle
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- conceal or hide
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muffle, repress, smother, stifle, strangle
[例]
- smother a yawn
- muffle one's anger
- strangle a yawn
- smother or suppress
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dampen, stifle
[反]
excite, stimulate
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- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
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asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate, choke
[例]
- The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
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asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate
[例]
- The child suffocated under the pillow
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