stifled的意思|stifled的解释-里氏词典

stifled

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Our ideas were stifled.
我们的意见被压了下来。
The gas stifled them.
他们被煤气熏得透不过气来。

stifled

[ adj ]
held in check with difficulty
<adj.all>
a smothered cougha stifled yawn
a strangled scream
suppressed laughter

Stifled \Sti"fled\, a.
Stifling.

The close and stifled study. --Hawthorne.

Stifle \Sti"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stifled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stifling}.] [Freq. of OE. stif stiff; cf. Icel. st[=i]fla to
dam up.]
1. To stop the breath of by crowding something into the
windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into
the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of
by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust.

Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.
--Dryden.

I took my leave, being half stifled with the
closeness of the room. --Swift.

2. To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to
stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame.

Bodies . . . stifle in themselves the rays which
they do not reflect or transmit. --Sir I.
Newton.

3. To suppress the manifestation or report of; to smother; to
conceal from public knowledge; as, to stifle a story; to
stifle passion.

I desire only to have things fairly represented as
they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled.
--Waterland.

There is no question that VOA's leadership has been stifled by crippling budget cuts.
First it failed economically, by applying controls which stifled free enterprise, and now it is failing politically too.
They say the new kinds of contracts shouldn't be stifled just because they aren't made in the futures pits of commodity exchanges.
By preventing direct ownership of industrial stocks by banks, goes one durable argument, Glass-Steagall has spared the U.S. from the concentration of economic power in banking that has stifled competition and growth in Europe.
Her cry in the second act to her heathen gods, filled with rage, envy, deep sadness and stifled guilt, was unforgettable.
Opposing continuing the quotas are American companies that rely on imported steel and which claim that the Reagan program has stifled competition, raised prices and caused harmful shortages.
A thaw in U.S.-Polish relations since early 1987 has led to the lifting of sanctions Washington imposed on the Warsaw government after it stifled the Solidarity free trade union movement in a December 1981 military crackdown.
During the Brezhnev years, he points out, creativity was stifled rigorously.
The civilian unemployment rate fell to 7.2 per cent from 7.3 per cent and the March non-payroll increase was revised to 39,000 from 19,000. The employment report stifled speculation that the Federal Reserve would ease monetary policy.
In his written testimony, leaked to the press, Mantzouranis said he arranged to deposit $2 million in a Swiss bank as payment to Koutsogiorgas for a special secrecy act that stifled an audit of the Bank of Crete in July 1988.
Mittermayer said her career flourished during the Reagan era, although it was a time when "Reagan stifled everything," and work and careers took precedence over matters of the heart.
Economic growth would have been stifled.
The senator said yesterday that he is planning 'a series of hearings' which will keep the bill stifled in his committee.
Buying interest on Thursday was stifled by midday news that the Japanese Ministry of Finance had launched an inspection of the Big Four securities companies for compensatory payments to big clients.
In between, fears about the March budget stifled the winter improvement and stopped potential vendors from selling. Then, the government seemed to lose its grip - another blow to vendors' confidence.
And the net capital outflow from Argentina, having already stifled internal investment and economic growth, now threatens to contribute to political unrest.
Jonathan, a pensive outsider, feels stifled by his close relationship with his mother.
Edith was stifled by her responsibilities in running his elaborate household and serving as his nurse/companion.
One of the more poignant ones is about the differences between Erich Honecker's politically stifled East Germany and the more free-spoken, but hungrier, Poland of Gen.
Yet with elections less than a year away, the conservative opposition split and the economy stifled by regulation and public monies sent down the gurgler, market voices are making themselves heard.
Bulgaria's foreign debt tops $10 billion, labor productivity is low, and private initiative has been stifled by more than four decades of a system of rigid central planning that also ruined agriculture.
Now they are feeling stifled by Moscow's dictates.
Canada has moved more cautiously than many other industrial countries to lift the regulatory barriers which have long stifled competition in the telecommunications market.
Supporters say it could be used for such new technologies as high-definition television, wireless communications and digital radio-technologies that otherwise could be stifled by the squeeze on available frequencies.
"He did not struggle, but yielded very quietly to his punishment and they cramm'd the earth close upon him, and stifled him," Mr. Dampier wrote.
They have ranged from fears of stifled competition to concern that the resulting defense colossus could end up dictating its own terms to the government.
But economic relations have been stifled by Soviet internal policies.
The cartel office's recommendations follow complaints by other German travel agencies that TUI and NUR had stifled competition in the Canary and Balearic Islands last year by block-booking hotel beds for almost the entire season.
The strikes are the worst labor unrest in Poland since 1981, when the Warsaw government stifled the Solidarity free trade union movement with a military crackdown.
In purely economic terms this rejuvenated feudalism has quelched private enterprise and stifled potential investment.

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