Smother

(noun.) a stifling cloud of smoke.

(verb.) conceal or hide; 'smother a yawn'; 'muffle one's anger'; 'strangle a yawn'.

(verb.) envelop completely; 'smother the meat in gravy'.

(verb.) deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; 'smother fires'.

(verb.) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; 'Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow'; 'The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor'.

(verb.) form an impenetrable cover over; 'the butter cream smothered the cake'.

录入:皮埃尔

• Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Give it up, you wretched little creetur, or I'll smother you in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Not that he feared fighting; ridicule alone was the bugbear, which made him smother his rising anger till he had quite subdued it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He did not hold enough to smother the cravings of his superhuman appetite. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We throw a blanket over burning material to smother the fire: to keep oxygen away from it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now,' said another gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Tom stretched himself out on a box, and there, as he lay, he heard, ever and anon, a smothered sob or cry from the prostrate creature,--O! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Tom was weeping, also, and occasionally uttering a smothered ejaculation. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is under my arm, said Miss Pross, in smothered tones, you shall not draw it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He spoke this in a smothered voice, and I did in truth believe that my last moments had arrived. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Truly I ought not to have been born; they should have smothered me at the first cry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I see her now looking up into my face, and entreating me to prevent them from smothering her, and to be sure and give her a strong narcotic. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Ah, brave, manly heart,--smothering thine own sorrow, to comfort thy beloved ones! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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