smother是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)smother up掩饰；压制

双语例句

(1)The medical examiner says the victim was smothered by a pillow.

法医表示受害人是被枕头闷死的。

(2)I smothered the brazier with a cloth.

我用一块布盖住了火盆。

(3)A smother of foam blocked my sight.

一团泡沫遮住了我的视线。

(4)They threatened to smother the animals with plastic bags.

他们威胁要用塑料袋把这些动物闷死

(5)He tried to smother me with a pillow.

他企图用枕头闷死我。

(6)The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.

女孩的父母在试图闷熄火苗时也被烧伤了。

(7)He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.

他试图用毯子把火扑灭。

(8)She tried to smother her anger and help them resolve their conflicts.

她试图抑制住怒气，帮助他们解决纠纷。

(9)Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.

一旦灌木开始把小植物完全覆盖，我们不得不将它们移走。

同义词

vt. 使窒息；抑制；闷熄；忍住

vi. 窒息；被抑制；闷死

n. 窒息状态；令人窒息的浓烟

释义

v.

kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate

使窒息，把（某人）闷死。

extinguish (a fire) by covering it

把（火）闷熄。

(smother someone/thing in/with)cover someone or something entirely with

用…完全覆盖（人，物）

rich orange sorbets smothered in fluffy whipped cream.

　包裹着厚厚一层松软掼奶油的口味浓郁的桔子冰糕。

make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner towards them

（因过分呵护而使某人）感到压抑。

suppress (a feeling or action)

抑制（感情，行为）

she smothered a sigh.

她强忍住不叹息。

(in sport)stop the motion of (the ball or a shot)

（运动中）拦截（球，射门，投篮）

the goalkeeper was able to smother the ball.

　守门员拦住了球。

cook in a covered container

焖煮，煨

[as adj. smothered]smothered fried chicken.

焖炸鸡。

n.

a mass of something that stifles or obscures

杂乱的一大堆东西，一片混乱

all this vanished in a smother of foam.

所有这一切都消失在一堆泡沫中。

词源

"Middle English （as a noun in the sense ‘stifling smoke’）： from the base of Old English smorian ‘suffocate’."