stifles

英 [ˈstaɪflz]

美 [ˈstaɪflz]

v.  压制; 扼杀; 阻止; 抑制; (使)窒息，无法自如地呼吸，感觉窒闷
stifle的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
  If someonestiflessomething you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing.
  1. Regulations on children stifled creativity...
     给孩子们定的各种规矩扼杀了他们的创造力。
  2. Critics have accused the US of trying to stifle debate.
     批评家指责美国试图压制争论。
• VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
  If youstiflea yawn or laugh, you prevent yourself from yawning or laughing.
  1. She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn...
     她忍不住打了个哈欠。
  2. His hand shot to his mouth to stifle a giggle.
     他赶紧捂住嘴，不让自己笑出声来。
• VERB 克制;压抑
  If youstifleyour natural feelings or behaviour, you prevent yourself from having those feelings or behaving in that way.
  1. It is best to stifle curiosity and leave birds' nests alone...
     最好能克制住好奇心，不要去碰鸟巢。
  2. He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her.
     他压抑住想要抓住艾薇摇晃她的冲动。

双语例句

• The subject generates great cynicism, with critics suggesting investors are in thrall to political correctness and guilty of creating a "box-ticking" culture that stifles entrepreneurship.
  它催生了诸如批评投资者被政治正确所左右，并且反对建立窒息企业发展的“暗箱文化”的反主流趋势。
• The report is also critical of "conservative thinking" in federal agencies that discourages scientists from taking risks, and stifles research that may lead to radically new technologies.
  报告还批评了联邦机构反对科学家冒险、扼杀可能带来全新技术的研究的“保守思想”。
• It stifles life and kills dreams.
  窒息人的生命，扼杀人的理想。
• Once it is sealed, it stifles.
  一旦封闭，道就窒息了。
• Moreover, the structure of the country's bureaucracy stifles initiative and promotes mediocrity.
  另外，中国的官僚结构抑制了首创精神，促使人平庸无所作为。
• Critics blamed everything from an education system that stifles imagination to censorship.
  批评人士抨击了很多方面，从遏制想象力的教育体制，到现行的审查制度。
• An increasing number of governmental agencies and government workers has created the problem of bureaucracy, where a mountain of paperwork stifles efficiency.
  不断增加的政府机构及公务员造成了官僚政治的问题，使堆积如山的纸上作业扼杀了效率。
• One instruction sequence of MSIL might be very amenable to optimization, whereas another ( semantically equivalent) sequence stifles optimization.
  一个MSIL指令序列也许能够很好地进行优化，但另一个（语义上等同的）序列却可能抑制优化。
• Scientists and environmentalists are furious at a clause in India's draft bill to form a new biotechnology regulatory authority that they say stifles opposition to genetically modified ( GM) products.
  一些科学家和环保主义者对设立印度新的生物安全管理机构的一份法律草案的一个条款感到愤怒，他们说该条款扼杀了对转基因食品的反对。
• And I guess if we were to take a random sample of any group of people on the planet, now their situation might be one that stifles creativity, but as human beings they are creative.
  如果我们随机挑选地球上的一群人，他们面临的共同问题可能就是创造力被扼杀了，因为作为人类，他们本该具有创造力。