| 词汇 | stifle |
| 释义 | stifle verb uk /ˈstaɪ.fəl/ us /ˈstaɪ.fəl/ stifleverb (NO AIR)[ I or T ] to (cause to) be unable to breathe because you have no air: （使）窒息，（使）喘不上气 He is said to have stifled his victim with a pillow.据说他用枕头闷死了受害人。 We almost stifled in the heat of the city.城里热得快让我们透不过气来了。 Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing aerobic asphyxia asphyxiation aspirate breathable breathe (something) in choke draw breathphrase expire huff and puffidiom hyperventilation lungful non-breathing out of breath pant puff puffed puffed out strangulation suffocate stifleverb (PREVENT HAPPENING)[ T ] to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing: 阻止；压制，抑制；扼杀 She stifled a cough/yawn/scream/sneeze.她忍住没有咳嗽／打哈欠／尖叫／打喷嚏。 I don't know how I managed to stifle my anger.我不知道自己是怎么抑制住了愤怒。 We should be encouraging new ideas, not stifling them.我们应该鼓励创意，而不是将其扼杀。 Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof frustration guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom preclude preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent scuttle smother suffocate stifle | American Dictionarystifle verb[ T ] us/ˈstɑɪ·fəl/ to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing: It is the responsibility of schools to encourage learning, not to stifle it. Examples of stiflestifle As viewpoints become entrenched, creative thought is stifled because the subject is believed to be understood. On the other hand, being known to the participants might have stifled the interviews and impeded open and frank discussion. The government's main concern now seemed to be stifling dissent before it became intractable. Companies stifled adventuring traders, suppressed free trade, precluded training mariners, brought superfluous commodities into the realm, and caused inflation. In society today, pressures to conform are stifling and are especially felt at school levels where peer pressure can have distinct disadvantages. Planters displayed a paternalistic concern for their neighbours in the processing, transportation, and sale of their crops, which stifled potential conflict. To put limitations on the art world would succeed only in stifling imaginative growth. They had not been fed for some time, and the atmosphere in the shed was stifling. Associations are noted as encompassing the vital role of maintaining a sense of society and collective activity whilst not stifling the development of the individual. A clever way of stifling discussion and few could have done it so well. After that period, little traditional knowledge was left for transmission to younger generations, and the desires to teach and to learn were stifled. Such interwoven signalling cascades can complicate therapeutic intervention, but the outcome could be improved if these signalling events were stifled concurrently. A sick community stifles the individual; a healthy one encourages and celebrates individual success. They had stifled, through all-encompassing party control, all civil institutions that might have met them. Measures should be taken to ensure that their views and approaches, even if deemed unconventional, are not stifled by the newly established system. See all examples of stifle These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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