stifling
英 [ˈstaɪflɪŋ]
美 [ˈstaɪflɪŋ]
adj. 令人窒息的;极其闷热的; (情况)令人窒息的,令人压抑的
v. 压制; 扼杀; 阻止; 抑制; (使)窒息,无法自如地呼吸,感觉窒闷
stifle的现在分词
现在分词:stifling
Collins.1 / BNC.32634 / COCA.21175
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 令人窒息的;闷热的
Stiflingheat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also usestiflingto describe a place that is extremely hot.- The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
小房间里令人窒息的热气开始让我感到恶心。
- The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
- ADJ-GRADED (情况)令人窒息的,令人感到压抑的
If a situation isstifling, it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want.- Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
和父母及两个姐妹生活在一起让她感到很压抑。 - ...a stifling bureaucracy.
令人窒息的官僚主义
- Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
- See also:stifle
英英释义
noun
- forceful prevention
- the suppression of heresy
- the quelling of the rebellion
- the stifling of all dissent
adj
- characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
- the summer was sultry and oppressive
- the stifling atmosphere
- the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
双语例句
- It really takes that level of belief to overcome the obstacles that we see preventing progress, stifling creativity.
真的是需要有那种程度的信心,才能克服我们所目睹的种种阻止进步,扼杀创造力的障碍。 - We reluctantly left our air-conditioned Hotel and walked oat into the stifling heat of high noon.
我们不情愿地离开了有空调的宾馆,走进晌午那令人窒息的酷热之中。 - Even as in one who at last draws free air, after long stifling with his own polluted breath.
就象是被自己污浊的呼吸长时间窒息之后,终于吸进了自由的空气。 - It is sultry rather than warm. It's stifling! I can hardly breathe.
这天气与其说暖和不如说闷热。天气太闷热了!我都没法呼吸了。 - If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.
假如一个人一直习惯于呼吸纽约的空气,那么,有时候,不够清澈的东西似乎就会让他窒息。 - Where it is not needed, it has only started to give up its habit of stifling private enterprise.
只在一些不必要的地方,印度政府开始放弃压制私有企业发展的习惯。 - Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
和父母及两个姐妹生活在一起让她感到很压抑。 - The Nordic story is not one of behemoth-like states stifling entrepreneurship, innovation and individuality.
北欧讲述的不是庞然大物般的政府扼杀了创业精神、创新和个性的故事。 - Our next PR blunder: crackdown and stifling surveillance of western Muslims.
我们的另一个公关蠢行:对西方的穆斯林展开打压和令人窒息的监控。 - I felt as if I was stifling.
我觉得好像要窒息了。