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
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  1. VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止
    If someone stifles something 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。
  2. VERB 克制住，忍住(哈欠、笑)
    If you stifle a 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。
  3. VERB 克制;压抑
    If you stifle your 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。
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双语例句

  1. This stifles innovation at big corporations and contributes to employee turnover.
    它扼杀了大公司的创新，助长了员工的流失。
  2. 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。
  3. McCannell observed, as did many other students, that Kulak stresses the software developer's need to be creative and insinuates that engineering stifles creativity.
    McCannell和其他许多同学评论道，Kulak强调软件开发人员需要具备创造性，并且影射工程学将抑制创造性。
  4. 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。
  5. This stifles the development of the financial sector.
    这就遏制了金融部门的发展。
  6. The fruits of such a system are a glittering consumer society which stifles creativity and individuality.
    这种制度的结果就是一个压制创造性和个性的闪光的消费者社会。
  7. The rear legs are broad and heavily muscled through the thighs; stifles moderately bent; hock joints are moderately bent and well let down.
    后座腿广阔和重肌透过大腿；扼杀中度排架；福接头中度执意要和好失望。
  8. 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”。
  9. 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。
  10. In both cases on both sides, the struggle rouses evil passions and stifles truth.
    在上述两种情况下，斗争从两方面唤起强烈的感情，扑灭真理。
  11. It stifles life and kills dreams.
    窒息人的生命，扼杀人的理想。
  12. Uranus may fear and hate Saturn because the latter stifles and frustrates his freedom;
    天王星可能害怕和憎恨土星因为后者窒息和挫败他的自由；
  13. 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。
  14. Greater income inequality stifles upward mobility between generations, making it harder for talented and hard-working people to get the rewards they deserve.
    收入差距扩大会抑制一代代人之间的上升流动性，让勤奋而有才能的人更难以得到应得的回报。
  15. The upper thighs are well-muscled and powerful, the stifles well bent, the hock joint well defined and set low to the ground.
    后腿上部肌肉发达，强有力，后腿膝关节充分弯曲，裸关节踝关节轮廓分明，距地的位置较低。
  16. 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。
  17. Corruption not only undermines the ability of governments to function properly, it also stifles the growth of the private sector.
    腐败不仅削弱政府适当发挥功能的能力，而且也会扼杀私营部门的增长。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. Once it is sealed, it stifles.
    一旦封闭，道就窒息了。
  21. Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers.
    无论去到什么地方，我都会被问，是否认为大学窒息了写作者。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. When the hocks are turned in-cow-hocks-the stifles and feet are turned outwards, resulting in a serious loss of propulsive power.
    在飞节内斜成为牛腿导致膝，足外撇的情况下，推进动力会丧失殆尽；
  25. In short, it encourages self-censorship and stifles dissent and debate.
    简而言之，它促使记者要自我审查，并且扼杀异议和辩论。
  26. By stopping speech even before it is uttered, government stifles discussion and dissent.
    政府通过在言论发表之前就予以制止的做法，扼杀讨论和异议。
  27. 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。
  28. This mist of heavy incense stifles my heart.
    香烟的浓雾窒塞了我的心。
  29. 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。
  30. 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。
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