suffocation
英 [ˌsʌf.əˈkeɪ.ʃən]
美 [ˌsʌf.əˈkeɪ.ʃən]
- n. 窒息；闷死
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英语词源
- suffocation (n.)
- late 14c., from Middle French suffocation, from Latin suffocationem (nominative suffocatio) "a choking, stifling," noun of action from past participle stem of suffocare "suffocate, throttle, stifle, strangle," originally "to narrow up," from sub "up (from under)" (see sub-) + fauces (plural) "throat, narrow entrance" (see faucet).
权威例句
- 1. Many of the victims died of suffocation.
- 许多遇难者是窒息死亡的。
- 2. The greatest dangers of pyroclastic avalanches are probably heat and suffocation.
- 火成碎屑崩落的最大危害可能是炽热和窒息作用.
- 3. The room was hot to suffocation.
- 房间热得闷人.
- 4. Such love will drown him in suffocation, pain and despair.
- 这样的爱会让人窒息, 让人痛苦,让人绝望的.
- 5. Let me amnesia, suffocation, let me die before you have it!
- 就让我失忆, 窒息, 就让我死在你们面前吧!