stifled

英 [ˈstaɪfld]

美 [ˈstaɪfld]

v.  压制; 扼杀; 阻止; 抑制; (使)窒息，无法自如地呼吸，感觉窒闷
stifle的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：stifled　过去式：stifled　

BNC.25304 / COCA.30156

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
  If someonestiflessomething 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。
• VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
  If youstiflea 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。
• VERB 克制;压抑
  If youstifleyour 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。

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:smotheredstrangledsuppressed

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• How dare you! She said, her voice stifled.
  “你竟敢这样！”她说，气得声音发哑了。
• 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。
• Regulations on children stifled creativity
  给孩子们定的各种规矩扼杀了他们的创造力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。