strangle
柯林斯詞典
1. V-T To strangle someone means to kill them by squeezing their throat tightly so that they cannot breathe. 扼死
He tried to strangle a border policeman and steal his gun. 他試圖扼死一位邊防警察并偷走他的槍。
2. V-T To strangle something means to prevent it from succeeding or developing. 抑制
The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions. 這個國家的經(jīng)濟(jì)困境正在抑制其科研機(jī)構(gòu)的發(fā)展。
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strangle /?str??ɡ?l/ (strangling,strangled,strangles)
劍橋詞典
- to kill someone by pressing their throat so that they cannot breathe
扼死，勒死，掐死
She had been strangled with her own scarf and her body dumped in the woods . 她被人用她自己的圍巾勒死，棄尸于樹林里。
to stop something from developing
抑制，壓制；扼殺
For years , the organization was strangled by excessive bureaucracy . 該機(jī)構(gòu)多年來因官僚主義作風(fēng)嚴(yán)重，發(fā)展受到阻滯。
There is a great deal of fear that the new restrictions might strangle the country's economy . 很多人害怕新的限制措施會抑制國家的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展。