smother
英['smʌðə(r)] 美['smʌðər]
"smother the meat in gravy"
"Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"
"The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
"smother a yawn"
"muffle one's anger"
"strangle a yawn"
"the butter cream smothered the cake"
"smother fires"
1.将(火)闷熄
If yousmother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.
e.g. The girl's parents were also burned as they tried tosmother the flames.
女孩的父母试图扑灭大火的时候也被烧伤了。
2.使…透不过气来;使…窒息;闷死
Tosmother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.
e.g. A father was secretly filmed as he tried tosmother 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.盖满;完全覆盖
Things thatsmother something cover it completely.
smother
e.g. Once the shrubs begin tosmother 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.宠爱;溺爱
If yousmother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.
e.g. 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。
e.g. ...a smothering, overprotective mother.
对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲
5.压抑，控制(感情或反应)
If yousmother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.
e.g. She summoned up all her pity for him, tosmother 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。
e.g. ...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑
6.压制，钳制，扼杀，镇压 (某种活动或过程)
If an activity or processis smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.
e.g. 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。
e.g. The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning tosmother the reform process.
波兰和匈牙利的债务正开始扼杀改革的进程。
1. 老妈爱死你：温馨又好笑的喜剧<>(smother)-诺亚的老妈因为怀疑丈夫出轨、在万圣节当晚穿著南瓜衣离家出走,带只5只爱狗投靠儿子家,疯狂、天真、及过度的关爱,让刚失业的诺亚生活更加混乱.
2. 使窒息：smooth-bore 滑膛武器 |smother 使窒息 |smothering action 窒息作用
3. smother的反义词
3. 浓烟：smoothness 平滑度 |smother 浓烟 |smother 窒息
He smothered the baby with a pillow.
他用枕头把婴儿闷死了。
a rich dessert smothered in cream
涂了厚厚一层奶油的多脂甜点
She smothered him with kisses.
她劈头盖脑给他一通狂吻。
to smother a yawn'/giggle'/grin
把哈欠忍了回去；憋住不笑出声来；刚想张嘴笑又收了回去
The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.
反对党的声音被有效地压制了下去。
Her husband was very loving, but she felt smothered.
丈夫对她百般宠爱，但这让她觉得不自在。
He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.
他试图用毯子把火扑灭。
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。
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。
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。
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。
...a smothering, overprotective mother.
对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲
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。
...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑
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。
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。
We tried to smother our laughter.
我们强忍住笑.
They tried to smother up the murder by pretending that her death was accidental.
他们谎称她是意外死亡以掩盖谋杀事实.
Fire fighters have to smother oil fires with a blanket of powder or foam.
消防战士们在灭这种火的时候,用各种可能的粉末或泡沫.
He had to smother a giggle.
他得抑制住自己,不咯咯地笑出声来.
In some of Jame's fiction motive seems to smother event.
在詹姆斯的一些小说里动机似乎把情节掩盖住了.
He could hardly smother his anger.
他几乎抑制不住他的愤怒之情.
As teammates sprinted to smother him in an ecstatic scrum, several Ghanaians slumped to the field.
当队友们狂喜地冲过去拥着他的时候, 几名加纳人跪在了场地上.
'Silver, sir,'returned the captain;'he's as anxious as you and I to smother things up.
“ 希尔弗, 先生, ” 船长回答说, “ 他和你我一样急于让事态平息下来.
He tried to smother up the factors.
他力图掩盖事实.
We..brought the boat to in a smother of foam.
出自：R. H. DanaThe muffle and smother of these fallen clouds.
出自：R. L. Stevenson上一个：brickie
下一个：breathless
