suffocate
英['s?f?ke?t]
美['s?f?ket]
- vi. 受阻，受扼制；窒息
- vt. 壓制，阻礙；使……窒息
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?suffocates;過(guò)去式:?suffocated;過(guò)去分詞:?suffocated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?suffocating;名詞:?suffocation;
中文詞源
suffocate 使窒息，悶死
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) suffocare,窒息，扼住咽喉，來(lái)自 suf-,在下，fauces,喉嚨，詞源同 faucet,水龍頭。
英文詞源
- suffocate
- suffocate: [16] To suffocate someone is etymologically to press down their ‘throat’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin suffocāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘under, down’ and faucēs ‘throat’ (source of the English technical term faucal ‘of the throat’ [19]). The origins of faucēs are not known.
=> faucal - 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.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
- 總督的計(jì)劃可能會(huì)造成上百萬(wàn)人失業(yè)，并束縛經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. A " free city " which was not genuinely free would suffocate freedom.
- 一個(gè)并不真正自由的 “ 自由城 ” 將使自由受到窒息.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 3. She felt often she must suffocate.
- 她不時(shí)感到自己非窒息致死不可.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. Improperly applied, it can suffocate the Bill of Right, turn our democracy into totalitarian state.
- 運(yùn)用不當(dāng), 它就會(huì)扼殺權(quán)利法案, 把我們的民主政體變成極權(quán)主義國(guó)家.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. Are you trying to suffocate us with that putrid smell?
- 你是想用那討厭的氣味把我們窒息死 吧 ?
來(lái)自電影對(duì)白