smothering

1. VERB 将(火)闷熄
   If you smother a 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。
2. VERB 使…透不过气来;使…窒息;闷死
   To smother someone 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。
3. VERB 盖满;完全覆盖
   Things that smother something 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。
4. VERB 宠爱;溺爱
   If you smother someone, 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
5. VERB 压抑，控制(感情或反应)
   If you smother an 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
6. VERB 压制，钳制，扼杀，镇压 (某种活动或过程)
   If an activity or process is 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。

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. Put out small fires out by smothering it with baking soda.
   用小苏打窒息灭小规模的火灾。
3. If something makes you angry, express it instead of smothering it with cigarette smoke.
   如果你觉得某些事情真的让你生气了，就把它当做是阻止你抽烟的事情吧。
4. She remained mute, not knowing that he was smothering his affection for her.
   她保持着沉默，不知道他也正在抑制着对她的感情。
5. They also fear the rising pressures on the budget could lead to a smothering of consumer spending and exports which have kept the economy afloat so far.
   他们还担心，不断上升的预算压力可能会抑制消费支出和出口，而这两者迄今为止维系了俄经济的正常运行。
6. It was a global smothering of generosity.
   这个全球性的慷慨之举令人窒息。
7. To the extent that it is genuine, my caring is not a smothering of the person or a possessive clinging.
   只要这种关心是真诚的，那么它就不会是某种压抑或占有性的依附。
8. We are smothering in this stuffy room.
   我们在这不通风的房间里正透不过气来。
9. I suspect that part of your nervous problem may be the smothering attitude of your family and you need to get out and try your wings a bit.
   我想你胆小的原因部分是由于你家人的那种令人窒息的态度，你需要摆脱出来发挥自己的才能。
10. Washington's challenge now lies in finding ways to nurture and encourage these still fragile trends without smothering them in a triumphalist embrace.
    华盛顿目前面临的挑战在于寻找各种途径以培育和鼓励这些依然还显得脆弱的趋势，而不是用胜利者的拥抱将其窒息。
11. They fell over the dirty face of a wounded man who feebly tried to turn his head to escape from their smothering folds.
    这裙子浇在一个伤兵的脏脸上，他虚弱地转着头，想躲避裙的拂扰。
12. But Mr Patel warns that the embrace can become smothering.
    但帕特尔警告，中国人的拥抱可能会令人喘不过气来。
13. Electrical fire needs fire extinguishers, but the smothering agent must be a non-conductor-that is, a material that will not conduct electricity.
    由于电引起的火灾需要灭火器，但是灭火的物质必须是绝缘体，也就是不导电的物质。
14. Once it has sunk to the bottom of the sea, the oil can kill plants by smothering them.
    一旦油沉到海底，它就会覆盖在植物上进而杀死它们。
15. And that is what is smothering our revolution.
    也就是这个官僚淹毙掉我们的革命。
16. Gas smothering system in cargo space
    货舱气体窒息灭火系统
17. She should love them without smothering them with attention.
    她对他们的关注应该恰如其分才是。
18. He wrapped the coat around her head, smothering the flames.
    他用上衣包住她的头，熄灭了火。
19. Gas smothering system in machinery space This instrument unit is cylindrical.
    机舱惰性气体灭火装置这个仪器舱是个圆柱体。
20. In short, Mo Yi reveals us the feelings of smothering, crispation, loneliness and coldness, which he feels in the city life.
    简而言之，莫毅向我们表达了他时时感觉到的城市生活：压抑、挛缩、孤独、冷酷。
21. This person has been a solid source of support for you, Virgo, even if her style is a bit off-putting or smothering at times.
    处女，这个人一直是你最坚实的支持者，虽然她的偶尔会稍微有点爱现或者墨迹。
22. He accused his mother of smothering him as a child.
    他指责母亲把他当作孩子来溺爱。
23. He laughed triumphantly, and silenced her by manly smothering.
    他胜利地微笑着，以男人咄咄逼人的气势使她哑口无言。
24. A distant or belittling father, an emotionally smothering or needy mother, and in the center a boy with nobody to guide him on the path to manhood.
    一个感情上几乎窒息的母亲。中间就是我，没有人指导我如何做男人。
25. The storm never let up, continuing to swallow everything with smothering force.
    而风势仍不减弱，以铺天盖地之势席卷、吞没着一切。
26. Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam;
    有时以窒息的浪花，掩着圣容；
27. I'm smothering in this stuffy room. The smoke has almost smothered me.
    在这个闷热的房间里我透不过气来。那烟闷得我几乎透不过气来。
28. You want to repeat this smothering thing, and you are very adept at bringing people in to love you, love you, and as soon as they get close enough, you push them away.
    你想要重复这个令人窒息的事，并且你很擅长把别人的爱你，爱你，当他们靠得很近，你把他们带走了。
29. Because you kissed Nikki while you were smothering her.
    因为在你闷住她的时候你还亲了她一下。
30. But the move served as a reminder that Beijing remains focused on smothering inflation, despite concern that global market turmoil could result in a sharp economic slowdown in China.
    但这次的行动提醒人们：北京方面仍聚焦于遏制通胀，尽管有人担忧全球市场动荡可能造成中国经济急剧放缓。

adj

1. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
   1. the choking June dust
   2. the smothering soft voices
   3. smothering heat
   4. the room was suffocating--hot and airless

   Synonym:    suffocatingsuffocative