smothered

英 [ˈsmʌðəd]

美 [ˈsmʌðərd]

v.  使窒息而死; 闷死; (用某物)厚厚地覆盖; 抑制; 扼杀; 忍住
smother的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：smothered　

COCA.38019

柯林斯词典

• VERB 将(火)闷熄
  If yousmothera fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.
  1. 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
  Tosmothersomeone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.
  1. 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 thatsmothersomething cover it completely.
  1. 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 yousmothersomeone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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 yousmotheran emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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 processis smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

adj

• held in check with difficulty
  1. a smothered cough
  2. a stifled yawn
  3. a strangled scream
  4. suppressed laughter
  Synonym:stifledstrangledsuppressed
• completely covered
  1. bonnets smothered with flowers
  2. smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy

双语例句

• He smothered a laugh at the sudden change.
  他看到这突如其来的变化，硬是忍住了笑。
• It was like being smothered by a feather bed.
  这好像蒙了一床鸭绒被，捂得令人窒息。
• She smothered the victim to death with a pillow.
  她用枕头蒙死了受害者。
• Her bedroom wall is smothered with photographs of him.
  她卧室的墙上挂满了他的照片。
• We smothered him with his own pillow.
  我们用他的枕头闷死了他。
• The wind smothered the houses with dust.
  大风刮起的尘土覆盖了房子。
• A Friday evening, I did mushroom smothered chicken, Hot-and-Sour Soup, tomato scrambled egg and steam fish.
  一个周五傍晚，我做了蘑菇炖鸡、酸辣汤、番茄炒蛋和清蒸鱼。
• 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。
• She must have smothered her!
  她一定把她呛到了！
• Something's gotta give! You can't be smothered anymore.
  你必须得到些满足，不能再被抑制了。