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单词 stifling
释义
stifling
(stflɪŋ )
1. adjective
Stifling heat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also use stifling to describe a place that is extremely hot.
The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous.
Synonyms: suffocating, close, oppressive, airless  
2. adjective
If a situation is stifling, it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want.
Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling.
...a stifling bureaucracy.
Synonyms: oppressive, severe, overwhelming, repressive  
3.  See also stifle
Translations:
Chinese: 沉闷的
Japanese: むっとする 息詰まる
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