stifle是什么意思

双语用例

• Debate on important ethical and political issues should not be stifled in deference to "experts" - not even to expert bioethicists, clinicians, and public health authorities.

• Open enrolment is assumed throughout because otherwise competition would be stifled; however, open enrolment makes self-selection of risks possible, which induces additional regulation.

• His second interruption, which finally stifles her, is especially powerful by virtue of its rhythmic and harmonic incongruity with her song.

• When colonists first arrived in the new world, they found plenty of land an ocean away from the old world's stifling seigniorial rights.

• The audience's response was stifled laughter; the director's intentions were surely otherwise.

• While technical limitations hampered the development of mechanical cotton harvesters, social pressures of small farms and the sharecropping system stifled its adoption36.

• Consensus has been viewed here as a negative factor stifling debate.

• The past had become a dead weight that held society back; it shackled people's minds and stifled their sense of patriotism.