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

• Thankfully, it wasn't smothered in stringy cheese like some pizzas.
  幸好它不像有些比萨饼那样上面涂满了难嚼的奶酪。
• I should have smothered you in your crib when I h the chance.
  我应该在婴儿时杀了你。
• I would have smothered you by now.
  我现在就把你掐死了。
• 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。
• We smothered him with his own pillow.
  我们用他的枕头闷死了他。
• This is what the killer smothered her with.
  这就是凶手用来使她窒息的东西。
• She had been smothered with her coat.
  她被人用她的外套窒息而死。
• She smothered the victim to death with a pillow.
  她用枕头蒙死了受害者。
• Is that what you want, to be smothered by pit and grief.
  那就是你想要的？在同情和悲痛的气氛中慢慢窒息。
• She had a feeling of being smothered.
  她有一种要窒息的感觉。