snuff是什么意思

双语用例

• They have a certain potential, which can be snuffed out, but they do not attain the more autonomous state of life.

• Clearly, wood materials were dropped into the shaft while burning and snuffed out due to lack of oxygen as the shaft filled.

• Like snuff bottles, the opium pipes fascinated and inspired generations of literati and officials.

• You couldn't believe his life could be snuffed out.

• What could snuff out social drive, a drive that ought to be as strong as the drive to breath, eat, or survive?

• The chalk downs began to revert to sheep pasture, which snuffed out many arable farmers and meant a steeply falling demand for labour.

• Calling conscious will an illusion sounds like a call to snuff out that spark - to douse the flame of our selves.

• The question was how recreation pursuits could get to the beach without snuffing out the values people sought there.