Smothered
[smʌðəd]
解释:
(adj.) held in check with difficulty; 'a smothered cough'; 'a stifled yawn'; 'a strangled scream'; 'suppressed laughter' .
(adj.) completely covered; 'bonnets smothered with flowers'; 'smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy' .
编辑:蒂姆--From WordNet
解释:
(imp. & p. p.) of Smother
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例句:
- Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now,' said another gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Tom stretched himself out on a box, and there, as he lay, he heard, ever and anon, a smothered sob or cry from the prostrate creature,--O! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Tom was weeping, also, and occasionally uttering a smothered ejaculation. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It is under my arm, said Miss Pross, in smothered tones, you shall not draw it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- He spoke this in a smothered voice, and I did in truth believe that my last moments had arrived. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Truly I ought not to have been born; they should have smothered me at the first cry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I felt smothered like down below. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Jo smothered a laugh at the sudden change, and when someone gave a modest tap, opened the door with a grim aspect which was anything but hospitable. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- I know I will be smothered if I stay in it. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I mentioned to Mr. Smallweed, only an hour or so ago, that when I come into things of this kind I feel as if I was being smothered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She would have thrown her arms about my neck and smothered me with caresses, had I not gently but firmly disengaged myself. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- A low moan close to her ear followed, and the rustling increased; she heard a smothered voice breathe out, Water, Water! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- When you go winding round and round me, says the trooper, putting his pipe between his lips again, damme, if I don't feel as if I was being smothered! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Shutting the door, he approached me, and said, in a smothered voice-- You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Her words were smothered in her throat, and her head drooped down. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The girl moaned out some half intelligible reply, that she could not tell; and seemed, from the smothered noise that escaped her, to be crying. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It is smothered ferocity! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- And he inflates his broad chest to its utmost extent as if to assure himself that he is not smothered yet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Ah, yes, it is very well to see things in that business point of view, murmured Eustacia with a smothered fire of feeling. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In the canons we almost smothered in the baking atmosphere. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- And was then turned over on its back in Bella's lap, and smothered with kisses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- No sooner were her preparations made than they roused a smothered sense of resistance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Business first, pleasure arterwards, as King Richard the Third said when he stabbed the t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the babbies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- It has kept him in a state of smothered exasperation all the time. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- For with sparky soot, snuffs and vapours, men have constant strife,-- Those who are not burned to death are smothered during life. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- I will _not_ commit it to your work-table to be smothered in piles of woollen hose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He hastened to undo it; and, with smothered voices and heavy tread, came several men, bringing a body, wrapped in a cloak, and lying on a shutter. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Of my darling being almost smothered among the flowers, and coming out, laughing and crying both together, to my jealous arms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
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