大学英语外报复习资料_Lesson_3_Tiger_Mom...Meet__Panda_Dad.pptVIP

* 攀登；登上;（事业、社会地位）提高；晋升 * ?VERB 扼杀;压制;抑止?If someone?stifles?something you consider to be a good thing, they prevent it from continuing.??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. smother: 1.?VERB 将(火)闷熄?If you?smother?a fire, you cover it with something in order to put it out.? The girls parents were also burned as they tried to?smother?the flames. 女孩的父母试图扑灭大火的时候也被烧伤了。 2.?VERB 使…透不过气来;使…窒息;闷死?To?smother?someone means to kill them by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe.?? A father was secretly filmed as he tried to?smother?his six-week-old son in hospital. 一位父亲在医院里企图捂死自己 6 周大的儿子的情景被秘密地拍了下来。 3.?VERB 盖满;完全覆盖?Things that?smother?something cover it completely.?? Once the shrubs begin to?smother?the little plants, we have to move them. 一旦灌木丛开始遮住这些小苗，我们就得把它们移走。 smothered...a hundred-year-old red-bricked house almost?smothered in ivy... 一座有着百年历史、几乎完全被常春藤所覆盖的红砖房 Make sure that your meal wont be?smothered with white sauce. 千万不要把自己的饭菜上都涂满白汁沙司。 4.?VERB 宠爱;溺爱?If you?smother?someone, you show your love for them too much and protect them too much.?? She loved her own children, almost?smothering them with love. 她十分疼爱自己的孩子，几乎到了溺爱的程度。 ...a?smothering, overprotective mother. 对孩子过分溺爱、过度保护的母亲 5.?VERB 压抑，控制(感情或反应)?If you?smother?an emotion or a reaction, you control it so that people do not notice it.?? She summoned up all her pity for him, to?smother?her self-pity. 她抑制着心中的自怜，将满腔的怜悯之情都倾注在了他的身上。 ...smothered giggles. 忍住的咯咯笑 6.?VERB 压制，钳制，扼杀，镇压 (某种活动或过程)?If an activity or process?is smothered, it is prevented from continuing or developing.?? Intellectual life in France was?smothered by the occupation... 在被占领期间法国思想界受到了压制。 The debts of both Poland and Hungary are beginning to?smother?the reform process. 波兰和匈牙利的债务正开始扼杀改革的进程。 * 1.?N-COUNT 新事物;新方法?An?innovation?is a new thing or a new method of doing something.? The vegetarian burger was an?innovation?which was rapi