suffocate
英語
編輯詞源
編輯源自拉丁語 suffōcāre,源自sub- (「在...之下」) + fōx (「喉嚨」)
發音
編輯動詞
編輯suffocate (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 suffocates,現在分詞 suffocating,一般過去時及過去分詞 suffocated)
- (作格) (使...)窒息,(使...)缺氧
- Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
- 打開艙口!他在氣閘室里要窒息了!
- 2020年11月2日, Jiu Xiao, 「Chinese Communist Party Officials Push Anti-U.S. Propaganda While Sending Families to Live in the U.S.」, 出自 Minghui[1]:
- It is because of freedom, one netizen replied: Like air, you may not realize its importance, but when suffocating, you would know how precious it is.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (作格) (使...)窒息而死
- He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
- 他用枕頭蓋住妻子的頭使她窒息而死。
- 1599, William Shakespeare, 「The Life of Henry the Fift」, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
- Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (作格,比喻義) (使...)窒息,(使...)喘不過氣,壓倒
- I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
- 這一大堆工作讓我喘不過氣來。
- 1962 April, 「London Airport rail link」, 出自 Modern Railways,第 222 頁:
- If the trend to private cars continues, the more quickly will the road traffic suffocate itself, [...].
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (及物) 摧毀;壓制;熄滅
- to suffocate fire
- 把火蓋滅
近義詞
編輯- (窒息,缺氧): asphyxiate、choke
- (窒息而死): stifle、choke
- (比喻義,喘不過氣): drown
- (使缺氧): asphyxiate、choke、smother
- (使窒息而死,悶死): asphyxiate、choke、stifle
- (抑制): smother
衍生詞彙
編輯相關詞彙
編輯形容詞
編輯suffocate (比較級 more suffocate,最高級 most suffocate)
延伸閱讀
編輯- 「suffocate」,Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913年,OCLC 800618302
- 「suffocate」,The Century Dictionary […],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,OCLC 867766587
- OneLook 在線詞典 上有關 suffocate 的釋義
異序詞
編輯拉丁語
編輯動詞
編輯suffōcāte