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V-ERG
(使)窒息而死;(把…)悶死
If someone suffocates or is suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
例句
He either suffocated, or froze to death...
他要么是悶死的，要么是凍死的。
They were suffocated as they slept.
他們睡覺時窒息而死。
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V-ERG
(使)呼吸困難;(使)憋悶
If you say that you are suffocating or that something is suffocating you, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
例句
That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
這樣好些了，我剛才在那個小房間里快悶死了。
The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
房間里密不透風，憋得她喘不上氣來。
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V-ERG
(受)束縛;(受)扼制
You say that a person or thing is suffocating, or that something is suffocating them, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
例句
After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
和父母呆了幾個星期后，她感到自己毫無自由。
The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
總督的計劃可能會造成上百萬人失業，并束縛經濟發展。