stifling

1 Goat’s children, shocked by what had happened to them, went off into the bushes, stifling their tears as they did so.

2 Even with so many interesting thoughts in her head, Penelope found herself stifling a yawn.

3 It was stifling, like a blanket, like an anaesthetic.

4 When she had gone, all at once the hall seemed stifling.

5 I wish we could go outside instead of stifling in this tiny room.

6 I glance over at Captain Smith and see that he is stifling a smile.

7 The stifling hot air enveloped them as they walked to the bottom of the metal slab.

8 But what really recalled her to him at this moment was the stifling heat of the afternoon, which had brought the sweat out on his forehead.

9 The air is stifling here; let's get out.

这里的空气令人窒息。我们出去吧。

10 I remember it being stifling that day, even though we had the fan rattling behind us.

11 I didn’t know if it was the emptiness, the stifling heat, or the fact it was only nine o’clock, but I couldn’t settle into sleep despite how tired I was.

12 We’re driving and it’s stifling hot outside, but the heater is on and the windows are up, and the radio is loud but tuned to the garble between stations.

13 With her mother, Portia (Polly Walker), regaining her footing in society after ousting their thieving cousin Jack (Rupert Young) from the family home, taking his money and shipping him back to America, the newsletter-writing gossip feels stifled.

14 Curt asked, propped up by pillows, stifling laughter.

15 Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.

和父母及两个姐妹生活在一起让她感到很压抑。

16 He tucked them one under each armpit, and crushed them fiercely to his sides; a great stifling hand was clapped over each of their mouths.

17 They stigmatize these propositions as'stifling '.

他们把这些命题贬称 “ 琐碎”.

18 As Metias opens the door and steps inside, I can see some girls out in the hall stifling smiles behind their hands.

19 Everywhere was parched and stifling as if the whole ancient city were one lighted brickkiln.

处处干燥,处处烫手,处处憋闷,整个的老城像烧透的砖窑,使人喘不出气.

20 Even absent the stifling heat of the previous year, the accommodations were decidedly uncomfortable.

1 令人窒息

oppressive breathless oppressively

2 窒闷的

close stuffy airless

3 沉闷

close heavy tedious depressing oppressive dismal tiring dreary muggy ponderous draggy dree amort heavily ponderously drearily oppression closeness tedium languor tediousness dreariness cold soft dull pudding tame soggy tiresome broody leaden lumpish cheerless triste atrabilious mid-victorian grum doldrums tameness

4 不透气

stuffy gastight airproof

5 闷热

close sultry sticky sultriness

6 令人窒息的

breathless choking smothery oppressive suffocating

7 扼杀

kill throttle stifle smother strangle strangulate snuff out

8 气闷的

stuffy

9 窒闷

close stuffy airless fuggy closeness suffocation fug stifle suffocate strangle

10 拘束

tight restrictive uneasy confining tie restriction constraint restraint cramp rein bridle straitjacket bind bit cabin restrain handcuff constrict fetter entrammel lay fast leading strings

11 刺鼻

powerful ripe pungent assault

12 刺鼻的

powerful ripe pungent

13 气闷

stifle

14 闷热的

close sultry sticky oppressive suffocating frowsty

15 死气沉沉的

dead

16 不透气的

stuffy gastight

17 沉闷的

close heavy tedious depressing oppressive tiring dreary muggy ponderous draggy dree amort dull lifeless inert leaden mirthless cold soft pudding tame dismal soggy tiresome broody lumpish cheerless triste atrabilious mid-victorian grum

18 拘束的

tight restrictive uneasy confining