smother
smother 英 [ˈsmʌðə(r)] 美 [ˈsmʌðɚ]
vt. 使窒息；抑制；（用灰等）闷熄；忍住 vi. 窒息；被抑制；闷死 n. 窒息状态；令人窒息的浓烟
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- To smother is to overwhelm or suffocate. If you've ever had a boyfriend or girlfriend who calls you twenty five times an hour to check up on you, then you know what it means to be smothered by someone.
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- vt. 使窒息；抑制；（用灰等）闷熄；忍住
- vi. 窒息；被抑制；闷死
- n. 窒息状态；令人窒息的浓烟
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1. He didn’t stare into her eyes or smother her the way Barry had, but he made it clear that he was available.
他并没有象巴里那样一直凝视她的眼睛或让她透不过气来，但他很明显非常在乎她。
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2. The mischief that it does at present is produced by our efforts to ignore it, or to smother it under a heap of sentimental lies and false pretences.
目前，通过我们努力的忽略这个事实，亦或是把事实掩盖在一堆情感谎言和虚假伪装之下，这出可笑的闹剧在不断地上演着。
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3. It's OK; the predominant flavour is of vinegar, but then I have wrapped the meat around the horseradish in an attempt to smother its flavour with steak.
这次不错，主要感觉出来的味道像是醋，后来我用牛肉卷起辣根试着掩盖它和牛排混在一起的味道。
- smother (v.) c. 1200, "to suffocate with smoke," from smother (n.), earlier smorthre "dense, suffocating smoke" (late 12c.), from stem of Old English smorian "to suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle," cognate with Middle Dutch smoren, German schmoren; possibly connected to smolder. Meaning "to kill by suffocation in any manner" is from 1540s; sense of "to extinguish a fire" is from 1590s. Sense of "stifle, repress" is first recorded 1570s; meaning "to cover thickly (with some substance)" is from 1590s. Related: Smothered; smothering.
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