stifled

英 [ˈstaɪfld]

美 [ˈstaɪfld]

v.  压制; 扼杀; 阻止; 抑制; (使)窒息，无法自如地呼吸，感觉窒闷
stifle的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：stifled　过去式：stifled　

BNC.25304 / COCA.30156

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
  If someonestiflessomething you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing.
  1. Regulations on children stifled creativity...
     给孩子们定的各种规矩扼杀了他们的创造力。
  2. Critics have accused the US of trying to stifle debate.
     批评家指责美国试图压制争论。
• VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
  If youstiflea yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing.
  1. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn...
     她忍不住打了个哈欠。
  2. His hand shot to his mouth to stifle a giggle.
     他赶紧捂住嘴，不让自己笑出声来。
• VERB 克制;压抑
  If youstifleyour natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way.
  1. It is best to stifle curiosity and leave birds' nests alone...
     最好能克制住好奇心，不要去碰鸟巢。
  2. He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her.
     他压抑住想要抓住艾薇摇晃她的冲动。

英英释义

adj

• held in check with difficulty
  1. a smothered cough
  2. a stifled yawn
  3. a strangled scream
  4. suppressed laughter
  Synonym:smotheredstrangledsuppressed

双语例句

• A smothered cough; a stifled yawn; a strangled scream; suppressed laughter.
  被憋住了的咳嗽；被憋住了的哈欠；被憋住了的叫喊；受抑制的笑声。
• All these cries of protest, all these expressions of opposition, were stifled.
  一切抗议声和反对意见就统统销声匿迹。
• She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
  她忍住了又一个呵欠，努力地试图显得感兴趣。
• But pride stifled my conscience, and I didn't tell her I was sorry.
  但自尊占了上风，我没有告诉她我很后悔。
• She now put no further restraint on her tears; her breath was stifled by sobs.
  她现在不再抑制她的眼泪，抽泣起来了。
• An authoritarian leadership stifled internal debate.
  专制领导压制了内部辩论。
• A shortened working week has freed up leisure time, but frozen earnings and stifled job creation.
  缩短的工作周时释放出闲暇时间，但也冻结了收入增长并抑制了就业岗位的创造。
• She had felt stifled in her relationship, she realized.
  她发现，过去在关系中，她感到了的是窒息。
• The organization is stifled by bureaucratic inertia and a failure to change to meet the needs of modem society.
  官僚主义的惰性及不能为满足现代社会的需要而进行变革等因素扼杀了这个组织。
• I stifled my shyness, complied with the order, and got my highly public shot in the butt.
  我努力克制住羞怯，服从了她的命令，让屁股在众目睽睽下挨了一针。