suffocating

英 [ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ]

adj.  令人呼吸困难的; 闷的; 使人窒息的; 起扼制作用的; 压制的; 束缚性的
v.  (使)窒息而死; (把…)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气
suffocate的现在分词

现在分词：suffocating　

医学

BNC.21617 / COCA.19677

牛津词典

adj.

• 令人呼吸困难的；闷的；使人窒息的
  making it difficult to breathe normally
  1. The afternoon heat was suffocating.
     下午热得让人透不过气来。
• 起扼制作用的；压制的；束缚性的
  restricting what sb/sth can do
  1. Some marriages can sometimes feel suffocating.
     有些婚姻有时候让人觉得受到束缚。

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)窒息而死;(把…)闷死
  If someonesuffocatesoris suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
  1. He either suffocated, or froze to death...
     他要么是闷死的，要么是冻死的。
  2. They were suffocated as they slept.
     他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• V-ERG (使)呼吸困难;(使)憋闷
  If you say that youare suffocatingor that somethingis suffocatingyou, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
  1. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
     这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
  2. The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
     房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• V-ERG (受)束缚;(受)扼制
  You say that a person or thingis suffocating, or that somethingis suffocatingthem, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
  1. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
     和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
  2. The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
     总督的计划可能会造成上百万人失业，并束缚经济发展。

英英释义

adj

• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
  1. the choking June dust
  2. the smothering soft voices
  3. smothering heat
  4. the room was suffocating--hot and airless
  Synonym:smotheringsuffocative

双语例句

• You cant, so you continue to spend all of your time together until youre suffocating and problems arise.
  你们做不到，所以就继续时刻黏在一起，直到要窒息了，问题产生了。
• He wanted to shout; he was suffocating.
  他只想大声叫一阵，他觉得自己快要憋得透不过气来了。
• He was immediately seized by a suffocating cough that soon ended his triumph.
  他立刻来了一阵窒息的咳嗽，很快地结束了他的胜利。
• A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow.
  我见到一片悲惨的景象：黑夜提前降临，天空和群山混杂在一团寒冽的旋风和使人窒息的大雪中。
• He had been suffocating in that atmosphere, while the apprentice's chatter had driven him frantic.
  那学徒的唠叨快把他通疯了。那气氛几乎叫他窒息。
• He seemed to be suffocating.
  他仿佛快要窒息了。
• A condition, such as severe sore throat, in which spasmodic attacks of suffocating pain occur.
  咽痛一种出现痉挛性窒息的情况，如严重的咽部疼痛。
• But it's suffocating in here.
  但这里让人窒息。
• He was surrounded by the wild frenzy of jerking chains and suffocating cries.
  他处在铁链叮当和声嘶力竭的乱叫乱喊中。
• Yes, it is extremely hard at times to raise one's head above the suffocating black cloud when one is immersed in it;
  是的，这是极为困难的时候，提出了一个个的头以上令人窒息的黑色云当一个沉浸在它；