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 11月 2, 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.
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- (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.
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- (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，頁號 222:
- If the trend to private cars continues, the more quickly will the road traffic suffocate itself, [...].
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- (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, 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