n. the thick,smothering (i. e. suffocating)smoke 足以使人窒息的濃煙。
△As.1.2.304 (287):“Thusmust I from the smoke into the smother,”i. e. out ofthe frying pan into the fire from a bad situatio n toan even worse one.這樣一來(lái),我得走出濃煙跳進(jìn)烈火(又譯:跳出油鍋進(jìn)入火坑)。
smother
vt.
1.suffocate,stifle 使窒息,把…悶死。
smother up: suffocate,stifle 使窒息,把…悶死。
△Ado.4.1.113 (112):“Smother her spirits up.”把她的生命力窒息了。
△H.V.4.5.19: “We are enow yet living inthe field /To smother up the English in our throngs,”在戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上我們還有不少的人活著,擠成一團(tuán),也能把英國(guó)人悶死。
2. suppress,cover up,conceal 隱瞞,掩蓋,隱蔽。
△1H.VI.4.1.109:“Your private grudge,my Lord ofYork,will out,/ Though ne’er so cunningly yousmother it.”約克大人,你深藏于心的仇恨,不管你掩蓋得多么巧妙,總是要暴露出來(lái)的。
△R.III.4.4.70: “Untimelysmothered in their dusky graves.”過(guò)早地被掩埋進(jìn)了陰暗的墳?zāi)估铩?/p>