smother
英 ['sm?e?]
美 ['sm?e?]
- vt. 使窒息；抑制；（用灰等）悶熄；忍住
- vi. 窒息；被抑制；悶死
- n. 窒息狀態(tài)；令人窒息的濃煙
助記提示
1. smolder / smoulder <====> smother.
2. => "burn and smoke without flame".
3. perhaps cognate with smell.
4. smoke => smolder, smother.
5. s- + mother => 毒蛇被媽媽給悶死了。
6. 音似“死m(xù)other”——媽媽被窒息了；從詞源角度，“smo”簡寫自“smoke-煙”
中文詞源
smother 令人窒息的濃煙，窒息，悶死，抑制，扼殺縮寫自中古英語 smorthre,濃煙，來自古英語 smorian,使窒息，悶死，-ian,表動詞，來自 Proto-Germanic*smurona,窒息，悶死，詞源可能同 smolder.-ther,工具格后綴，比較 tether,mother. 引申比喻義抑制，扼殺。
英文詞源
- smother (v.)
- c. 1200, "to suffocate with smoke," from smother (n.), earlier smorthre "dense, suffocating smoke" (late 12c.), from stem of Old English smorian "to suffocate, choke, strangle, stifle," cognate with Middle Dutch smoren, German schmoren; possibly connected to smolder. Meaning "to kill by suffocation in any manner" is from 1540s; sense of "to extinguish a fire" is from 1590s. Sense of "stifle, repress" is first recorded 1570s; meaning "to cover thickly (with some substance)" is from 1590s. Related: Smothered; smothering.
雙語例句
- 1. She summoned up all her pity for him, to smother her self-pity.
- 她抑制著心中的自憐，將滿腔的憐憫之情都傾注在了他的身上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Don't put that cloth over the baby's face, you'll smother him!
- 不要把布蓋在那個嬰兒臉上, 會使他窒息的!
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. They tried to smother the flames with a damp blanket.
- 他們試圖用一條濕毯子去滅火.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. I just managed to smother a yawn.
- 我剛設(shè)法忍住了一個呵欠.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. We tried to smother our laughter.
- 我們強(qiáng)忍住笑.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》