stifled

英 [ˈstaɪfld]

美 [ˈstaɪfld]

v.  压制; 扼杀; 阻止; 抑制; (使)窒息，无法自如地呼吸，感觉窒闷
stifle的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：stifled　过去式：stifled　

BNC.25304 / COCA.30156

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
  If someonestiflessomething you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing.
  1. Regulations on children stifled creativity...
     给孩子们定的各种规矩扼杀了他们的创造力。
  2. Critics have accused the US of trying to stifle debate.
     批评家指责美国试图压制争论。
• VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
  If youstiflea yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing.
  1. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn...
     她忍不住打了个哈欠。
  2. His hand shot to his mouth to stifle a giggle.
     他赶紧捂住嘴，不让自己笑出声来。
• VERB 克制;压抑
  If youstifleyour natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way.
  1. It is best to stifle curiosity and leave birds' nests alone...
     最好能克制住好奇心，不要去碰鸟巢。
  2. He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her.
     他压抑住想要抓住艾薇摇晃她的冲动。

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:smotheredstrangledsuppressed

双语例句

• But it was Iike a heavy cloak that stifled me.
  但那就像个大斗蓬要把我闷死了。
• An authoritarian leadership stifled internal debate.
  专制领导压制了内部辩论。
• But pride stifled my conscience, and I didn't tell her I was sorry.
  但自尊占了上风，我没有告诉她我很后悔。
• Everything which had been hastily stifled was moving and fermenting.
  被突然堵住了的一切又在移动酝酿了。
• I rushed out of the room because the oppressive air stifled me.
  我急忙地出了那个屋子，因为闷热的空气使我窒息起来。
• I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
  我宁愿生命的火花在壮丽的火焰中燃烧殆尽，也不愿在腐朽之物中窒息而死。
• I stifled my shyness, complied with the order, and got my highly public shot in the butt.
  我努力克制住羞怯，服从了她的命令，让屁股在众目睽睽下挨了一针。
• For decades, Onsen owners have stifled development of a huge potential source of clean energy: geothermal power.
  数十年来，温泉业主们都阻碍着地热能这种潜能巨大的清洁能源的发展。
• The organization is stifled by bureaucratic inertia and a failure to change to meet the needs of modem society.
  官僚主义的惰性及不能为满足现代社会的需要而进行变革等因素扼杀了这个组织。
• Tramping over the shingle and larger rocks on the beach, he secretly stifled his anger.
  他踩着河滩地上的卵石和硬石，不动声色地压制着心头的怒火。