stifling

1. ADJ-GRADED 令人窒息的;闷热的
   Stifling heat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also use stifling to describe a place that is extremely hot.
   1. The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
      小房间里令人窒息的热气开始让我感到恶心。
2. ADJ-GRADED (情况)令人窒息的，令人感到压抑的
   If a situation is stifling, it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want.
   1. Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
      和父母及两个姐妹生活在一起让她感到很压抑。
   2. ...a stifling bureaucracy.
      令人窒息的官僚主义
3. See also: stifle

1. The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
   小房间里令人窒息的热气开始让我感到恶心。
2. Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
   和父母及两个姐妹生活在一起让她感到很压抑。
3. The World Bank is accusing Israel of stifling the Palestinian economy.
   世界银行指责以色列窒息巴勒斯坦的经济。
4. Running in the morning is the best way to avoid hot weather, heat stroke, and stifling humidity.
   晨跑是避免热天、中暑、和沉闷潮湿感的最好选择。
5. Even as in one who at last draws free air, after long stifling with his own polluted breath.
   就象是被自己污浊的呼吸长时间窒息之后，终于吸进了自由的空气。
6. Our next PR blunder: crackdown and stifling surveillance of western Muslims.
   我们的另一个公关蠢行：对西方的穆斯林展开打压和令人窒息的监控。
7. If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling.
   假如一个人一直习惯于呼吸纽约的空气，那么，有时候，不够清澈的东西似乎就会让他窒息。
8. I must go out and sit in the garden. The air is stifling here.
   我得上外边花园里坐坐。这儿的空气叫人窒息。
9. I felt as if I was stifling.
   我觉得好像要窒息了。
10. We had to deal with a lot of stifling bureaucracy.
    我们必须对付大量误事的官僚作风。
11. We reluctantly left our air-conditioned Hotel and walked oat into the stifling heat of high noon.
    我们不情愿地离开了有空调的宾馆，走进晌午那令人窒息的酷热之中。
12. The atmosphere in the crowded hall became so stifling that two of the women passed out.
    拥挤不堪的大厅里闷得令人窒息，两个妇女晕了过去。
13. Into the stifling smoke plunged the desperate woman.
    冲进呛人烟雾的是那位绝望的妇女。
14. It really takes that level of belief to overcome the obstacles that we see preventing progress, stifling creativity.
    真的是需要有那种程度的信心，才能克服我们所目睹的种种阻止进步，扼杀创造力的障碍。
15. Our conversations became stifling – in the end I stopped talking about them altogether because I wasn't getting the refuge I wanted.
    我们的对话变得非常沉闷&到最后我停止了诉说，因为我没有寻找到我的避难所。
16. We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed.
    我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里，简直透不过气来。
17. I'm stifling in this hot room.
    我在这么热的房间里要闷死了。
18. The government accused the company of bullying its rivals and stifling competition.
    政府指责这家公司威胁其对手，并且扼杀竞争。
19. I felt I was stifling in the airless room.
    在那间闷气的屋子里我感觉都快要憋死了。
20. Large organizations where you have to answer to someone else are often stifling to an entrepreneurial personality.
    大公司的话，你就必须对其他人负责，这样就扼杀了企业家的个性。
21. I am stifling in this close room.
    在这个窄狭的房间里面我感到憋闷。
22. Many parents complain that the teaching method in this school is stifling their kids'imagination and creativity.
    许多家长抱怨学校的教学方式压抑了孩子们的想象力和创造力。
23. An increase in interest rates will undoubtedly result in an immediate stifling of any increase in economic activity.
    提高利率无疑会导致立即抑制经济活动中的任何增长。
24. I had to get out of there. it's so stifling.
    我得出去逛逛，我快闷死了。
25. Where it is not needed, it has only started to give up its habit of stifling private enterprise.
    只在一些不必要的地方，印度政府开始放弃压制私有企业发展的习惯。
26. These measures will have the effect of stifling competition.
    这些措施会产生扼杀竞争的后果。
27. But it also recognises that the separation of banking and broking is stifling development of Japan's financial markets.
    但该机构也承认，割裂银行和证券业务的做法，正在抑制日本金融市场的发展。
28. The place was stifling, full of smoke and the unique beery smell of an English pub.
    屋里闷得厉害，空气里充满了烟和英国酒店特有的啤酒味。
29. The Nordic story is not one of behemoth-like states stifling entrepreneurship, innovation and individuality.
    北欧讲述的不是庞然大物般的政府扼杀了创业精神、创新和个性的故事。
30. It is sultry rather than warm. It's stifling! I can hardly breathe.
    这天气与其说暖和不如说闷热。天气太闷热了！我都没法呼吸了。

noun

1. forceful prevention
   1. the suppression of heresy
   2. the quelling of the rebellion
   3. the stifling of all dissent

   Synonym:    suppressioncrushingquelling

adj

1. characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
   1. the summer was sultry and oppressive
   2. the stifling atmosphere
   3. the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm

   Synonym:    sultrysulfuroussulphurous