stifled

1. VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
   If someone stifles something 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。
2. VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
   If you stifle a 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。
3. VERB 克制;压抑
   If you stifle your 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。

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. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. They see planners as being stifled and boring, and assume that routines and schedules are not for them.
   在他们看来，有计划的人无趣，而且让人透不过气来。他们认为惯例和时间表和自己无关。
7. 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。
8. APRIL: listen to me: It's what you are that's being stifled here.
   爱普莉：听我说：真正的你在这里被压抑了。
9. I choose to begin letting go of unhealthy thoughts, feelings and attitudes that have stifled my growth.
   我决定远离有损身心健康的想法、情感和消极的人生态度，它们抑制了我的成长。
10. A smothered cough; a stifled yawn; a strangled scream; suppressed laughter.
    被憋住了的咳嗽；被憋住了的哈欠；被憋住了的叫喊；受抑制的笑声。
11. 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。
12. How dare you! She said, her voice stifled.
    “你竟敢这样！”她说，气得声音发哑了。
13. The government has stifled all opposition to its plans.
    政府压制了所有对其计划的反对意见。
14. A shortened working week has freed up leisure time, but frozen earnings and stifled job creation.
    缩短的工作周时释放出闲暇时间，但也冻结了收入增长并抑制了就业岗位的创造。
15. An overweening public sector has stifled growth in jobs in service industries.
    自负的公共部门已经妨碍了服务业岗位的增长。
16. She now put no further restraint on her tears; her breath was stifled by sobs.
    她现在不再抑制她的眼泪，抽泣起来了。
17. An authoritarian leadership stifled internal debate.
    专制领导压制了内部辩论。
18. 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。
19. And I've stifled in the muggy air of Hefei in Anhui.
    在安徽合肥的湿热空气中我也感觉快要窒息过。
20. 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。
21. All these cries of protest, all these expressions of opposition, were stifled.
    一切抗议声和反对意见就统统销声匿迹。
22. She had felt stifled in her relationship, she realized.
    她发现，过去在关系中，她感到了的是窒息。
23. She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
    她忍住了又一个呵欠，努力地试图显得感兴趣。
24. In countries such as Russia and Mexico, resource nationalism has stifled investment in supply.
    在俄罗斯和墨西哥等国，资源民族主义扼杀了对供给的投资。
25. Smith's message was that economic exploitation, through the monopoly trade of empire, stifled wealth-creation in both home and foreign lands.
    史密斯的观点是通过帝国的垄断贸易和经济剥削，在本国和外国的土地上窒息了财富的创造。
26. We do have talented people who have been stifled.
    我们不是没有人才，而是被按住了。
27. But it was Iike a heavy cloak that stifled me.
    但那就像个大斗蓬要把我闷死了。
28. This room is stuffy; I feel stifled in here.
    这房间不通气，在这里我感到窒息。
29. 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。

adj

1. held in check with difficulty
   1. a smothered cough
   2. a stifled yawn
   3. a strangled scream
   4. suppressed laughter

   Synonym:    smotheredstrangledsuppressed