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 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”。
• 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。
• Absolute job security stifles risk-taking, he says, something that Japan desperately needs.
  他表示，绝对的就业安全会扼杀冒险行为，而这种冒险是日本现在亟需的。
• Some of my foreign friends suggested that such management stifles creativity and restricts freedom.
  我的一些外国朋友说这样的管理是会窒息创造力和束服自由的。
• 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。
• It stifles life and kills dreams.
  窒息人的生命，扼杀人的理想。
• More than 80 per cent of senior executives of big companies in the region surveyed cited "domestic legislation that stifles foreign ownership" and widely different management cultures across Asia as most likely to derail cross-border acquisitions in the next 12 months.
  在接受调查的亚洲大公司高管中，有80%以上的人表示，未来12个月内，“抑制外国所有权的国内立法”和亚洲各地各有不同的管理文化，最可能影响跨国收购。
• In addition, the commission is examining claims that Microsoft stifles competition by only allowing Internet Explorer to be installed on tablet devices running its version of Windows 8 on low power ARM processors.
  此外，欧盟委员会也在调查外界对微软妨碍平板电脑市场竞争的指控，即微软在配备低功耗ARM处理器、运行Windows8的平板设备上，只允许安装IE浏览器。
• 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。
• Regulators by their nature proliferate and develop a morbidly symbiotic relationship with certain businesses that stifles choice, innovation, job creation and competitiveness.
  监管机构天生会和某些特定企业繁殖、发展一种病态的共生关系，这种关系会扼杀选择、创新、就业创造和竞争力。