柯林斯詞典stifling /?sta?fl??/ 1. ADJ Stifling heat is so intense that it makes you feel uncomfortable. You can also use stifling to describe a place that is extremely hot. 熱得難受的 The stifling heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous. 小房間裡難以忍受的高溫開始令我惡心。2. ADJ If a situation is stifling, it makes you feel uncomfortable because you cannot do what you want. 令人感到壓抑的 Life at home with her parents and two sisters was stifling. 在家裡和她父母及兩個姊妹生活令人感到壓抑。3. →see also stifle 返回 stifling劍橋詞典 stifling adjective (NO AIR) extremely hot and unpleasant 悶熱的，熱得令人窒息的 I can't bear this stifling humidity . 我受不了這種悶熱潮溼。 Several hundred people were crammed into the stifling room . 幾百人擠在這個令人窒息的房間裡。 stifling adjective (PREVENT HAPPENING) preventing something from happening 阻止的；壓制的，抑制的；扼殺的 stifling bureaucracy 專制的官僚作風 返回 stifling