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VERB
將(火)悶熄
If you smother a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.
例句
The girl's parents were also burned as they tried to smother the flames.
女孩的父母試圖撲滅大火的時候也被燒傷了。
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VERB
使…透不過氣來;使…窒息;悶死
To smother someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.
例句
A father was secretly filmed as he tried to smother his six-week-old son in hospital.
一位父親在醫(yī)院里企圖捂死自己 6 周大的兒子的情景被秘密地拍了下來。
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VERB
蓋滿;完全覆蓋
Things that smother something cover it completely.
例句
Once the shrubs begin to smother the little plants, we have to move them.
一旦灌木叢開始遮住這些小苗，我們就得把它們移走。
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VERB
寵愛;溺愛
If you smother someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.
例句
She loved her own children, almost smothering them with love.
她十分疼愛自己的孩子，幾乎到了溺愛的程度。
...a smothering, overprotective mother.
對孩子過分溺愛、過度保護的母親
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VERB
壓抑，控制(感情或反應)
If you smother an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.
例句
She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
她抑制著心中的自憐，將滿腔的憐憫之情都傾注在了他的身上。
...smothered giggles.
忍住的咯咯笑
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VERB
壓制，鉗制，扼殺，鎮(zhèn)壓 (某種活動或過程)
If an activity or process is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.
例句
Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation...
在被占領(lǐng)期間法國思想界受到了壓制。
The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to smother the reform process.
波蘭和匈牙利的債務正開始扼殺改革的進程。