英汉词典

smother 基本解释

• vt. 使窒息；抑制；（用灰等）闷熄；忍住
• vi. 窒息；被抑制；闷死
• n. 窒息状态；令人窒息的浓烟

smother 词态变化

smother 中文词源

缩写自中古英语 smorthre,浓烟，来自古英语 smorian,使窒息，闷死，-ian,表动词，来自 Proto-Germanic*smurona,窒息，闷死，词源可能同 smolder.-ther,工具格后缀，比较 tether,mother. 引申比喻义抑制，扼杀。

smother 英文词源

smother (v.)

c. 1200, "to suffocate with smoke," from smother (n.), earlier smorthre "dense, suffocating smoke" (late 12c.), from stem of Old English smorian "to suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle," cognate with Middle Dutch smoren, German schmoren; possibly connected to smolder. Meaning "to kill by suffocation in any manner" is from 1540s; sense of "to extinguish a fire" is from 1590s. Sense of "stifle, repress" is first recorded 1570s; meaning "to cover thickly (with some substance)" is from 1590s. Related: Smothered; smothering.

smother 英文释义

1. a confused multitude of things

2. a stifling cloud of smoke

smother 双语例句

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。

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2. Don't put that cloth over the baby's face, you'll smother him!

不要把布盖在那个婴儿脸上, 会使他窒息的!

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3. They tried to smother the flames with a damp blanket.

他们试图用一条湿毯子去灭火.

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4. I just managed to smother a yawn.

我刚设法忍住了一个呵欠.

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5. We tried to smother our laughter.

我们强忍住笑.

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smother 实用场景例句

He smothered the baby with a pillow.

他用枕头把婴儿闷死了。

牛津词典

a rich dessert smothered in cream

涂了厚厚一层奶油的多脂甜点

牛津词典

She smothered him with kisses.

她劈头盖脑给他一通狂吻。

牛津词典

to smother a yawn/giggle/grin

把哈欠忍了回去；憋住不笑出声来；刚想张嘴笑又收了回去

牛津词典

The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.

反对党的声音被有效地压制了下去。

牛津词典

Her husband was very loving, but she felt smothered.

丈夫对她百般宠爱，但这让她觉得不自在。

牛津词典

He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.

他试图用毯子把火扑灭。

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a smothering, overprotective mother.

对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...smothered giggles.

忍住的咯咯笑

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We tried to smother our laughter.

我们强忍住笑.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.

他们谎称她是意外死亡以掩盖谋杀事实.

《简明英汉词典》

Fire fighters have to smother oil fires with a blanket of powder or foam.

消防战士们在灭这种火的时候,用各种可能的粉末或泡沫.

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He had to smother a giggle.

他得抑制住自己,不咯咯地笑出声来.

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In some of Jame's fiction motive seems to smother event.

在詹姆斯的一些小说里动机似乎把情节掩盖住了.

辞典例句

He could hardly smother his anger.

他几乎抑制不住他的愤怒之情.

辞典例句

As teammates sprinted to smother him in an ecstatic scrum, several Ghanaians slumped to the field.

当队友们狂喜地冲过去拥着他的时候, 几名加纳人跪在了场地上.

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'Silver, sir,'returned the captain;'he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up.

“ 希尔弗, 先生, ” 船长回答说, “ 他和你我一样急于让事态平息下来.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

He tried to smother up the factors.

他力图掩盖事实.

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