stifling
柯林斯詞典
1. ADJ Stifling heat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also use stifling to describe a place that is extremely hot. 熱得難受的
The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous. 小房間里難以忍受的高溫開始令我惡心。
2. ADJ If a situation is stifling, it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want. 令人感到壓抑的
Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling. 在家里和她父母及兩個姊妹生活令人感到壓抑。
3. →see also stifle
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stifling /?sta?fl??/
劍橋詞典
stifling adjective (NO AIR)
extremely hot and unpleasant
悶熱的,熱得令人窒息的
I can't bear this stifling humidity . 我受不了這種悶熱潮濕。
Several hundred people were crammed into the stifling room . 幾百人擠在這個令人窒息的房間里。
stifling adjective (PREVENT HAPPENING)
preventing something from happening
阻止的;壓制的,抑制的;扼殺的
stifling bureaucracy 專制的官僚作風(fēng) 返回 stifling