| 词汇 | stifled |
| 释义 | stifled past simple and past participle ofstifle 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 aspiration breathable breathe (something) in choke draw breathphrase expire huff and puffidiom hyperventilation lungful non-breathing out of breath pant puffed puffed out stifle strangulation 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 bottleneck derail fireproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusive prejudice prevent preventable preventative scuttle smother Examples of stifledstifled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. As viewpoints become entrenched, creative thought is stifled because the subject is believed to be understood. Planters displayed a paternalistic concern for their neighbours in the processing, transportation, and sale of their crops, which stifled potential conflict. If this does not happen the organisation will over time, become stifled and inflexible with no additional benefit to be gained from these ineffective barriers. The result was that some machines were forced off-line and many corporate and other networks stifled. Such interwoven signalling cascades can complicate therapeutic intervention, but the outcome could be improved if these signalling events were stifled concurrently. After that period, little traditional knowledge was left for transmission to younger generations, and the desires to teach and to learn were stifled. Personal animosity and stifled ambition merged with wider monastic concerns to produce an unavoidable conflict. Debate on important ethical and political issues should not be stifled in deference to "experts" - not even to expert bioethicists, clinicians, and public health authorities. Open enrolment is assumed throughout because otherwise competition would be stifled; however, open enrolment makes self-selection of risks possible, which induces additional regulation. While technical limitations hampered the development of mechanical cotton harvesters, social pressures of small farms and the sharecropping system stifled its adoption36. While the idea of socrealizm was still valid it had been clumsily implemented and had stifled individual 'free development' necessary to underpin objective truth. He's stifled, dirty and itchy, and unsteady at the ankles. In the world of solid objects envisaged by material-culture theorists, however, the flux of materials is stifled and stilled. The debate over whether the public sector promoted or stifled artistic endeavors remains volatile even today. He also found that clearance provisions stipulating when exhibitors could show movies stifled competition and restricted the exhibitors' ability to compete. 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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