suffocate
suffocate 英 [ˈsʌfəkeɪt] 美 [ˈsʌfəˌket]
vi. 受阻，受扼制；窒息 vt. 压制，阻碍；使……窒息
进行时:suffocating 过去式:suffocated 过去分词:suffocated 第三人称单数:suffocates
- When you suffocate, you struggle for breath, either because you’re being choked to death or because you’re in a stifling room. You can also suffocate in a figurative sense anytime something is restricted.
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- vi. 受阻，受扼制；窒息
- vt. 压制，阻碍；使……窒息
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1. If you stayed seated, he said, you'd suffocate.
如果你还留在座位上，他说，你就窒息了。
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2. You don’t “need” to be single, being single will only suffocate your personal growth.
你没有必要恢复单身，单身的状态只能阻碍你的个人成长。
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3. There is very little air in that space. But not so little that we might suffocate, and thus create a story.
那个空间只有那么一点空气，但也没有少到让我们可能窒息，免得产生一个故事。
- suffocate (v.) early 15c. (transitive), "deprive of air, choke, kill by preventing access of air to the lungs," also figurative, "stifle, smother, extinguish," from Latin suffocatus, past participle of suffocare "to choke" (see suffocation). Intransitive use, "become choked, stifled, or smothered," is from 1702. Related: Suffocated; suffocating.
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