Stifle
['staɪf(ə)l] or ['staɪfl]
解释:
(noun.) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee.
(verb.) smother or suppress; 'Stifle your curiosity'.
整理:希欧多尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse.
(v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.
(v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.
(v. t.) To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to stifle passion.
(v. i.) To die by reason of obstruction of the breath, or because some noxious substance prevents respiration.
雅克校对
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Smother, choke, suffocate.[2]. Suppress, repress, check, deaden, stop, destroy, extinguish, quench.[3]. Still, hush, silence, muffle, muzzle, gag.
整理:劳拉
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Choke, suffocate, {[sniotfapr]?}, throttle, quench, repress, suppress,extinguish, burke
ANT:Ventilate, discuss, promulgate, propound
阿伊达整理
解释:
n. the knee-joint on a horse's hind-leg a disease of his knee-pan.
v.t. to stop the breath of by foul air or other means: to suffocate smother: to extinguish: to suppress the sound of: to destroy: to suppress conceal.—v.i. to suffocate.—adj. Stī′fling close oppressive.
整理:韦尔登
例句:
- And while they maunder along they stifle the forces of life which are trying to break through. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It was impossible to stifle the consequences of that process for ever by political trickery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- My heart gave a great bound, and throbbed as if it would stifle me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She would stifle it and bury it, as Hetty Sorrell did. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He was ready to stifle with vexation, and obstinately would not promise to row. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Margaret's heart ached at his restlessness--his trying to stifle and strangle the hideous fear that was looming out of the dark places of his heart. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- I cannot bear houses; they stifle me; they crush me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The sensation of being stifled sometimes so overpowered him, that he would stand at the window holding his throat and gasping. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The house is stifled by them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The air of the place stifled him, and he wondered why he had stayed in it so long. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- If the baby cried, it was nearly stifled lest the noise should make him uncomfortable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- This cabinet dazzled me, it was so full of light: it deafened me, it was clamorous with voices: it stifled me, it was so hot, choking, thronged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Jo lay motionless, and her sister fancied that she was asleep, till a stifled sob made her exclaim, as she touched a wet cheek. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- I am stifled at the present moment, and have scarcely breath enough to say this much, and to carry this precious box down-stairs for you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- If one had habitually breathed the New York air there were times when anything less crystalline seemed stifling. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- It was a close and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made and unmade, including one window full of beaver-hats and bonnets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale-blue glare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- When he was gone, Dorothea's tears gushed forth, and relieved her stifling oppression. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- In this state of abstraction he found himself, the following morning, waking to the reality of a stifling September day in New York. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Are you doctor enough, Godfrey, to tell me why I feel as if I was stifling for want of breath? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- It stifles me to breathe the same air with her! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
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