snuff out
- 消灭,消除(分歧等);(用手)掐灭;(用物件)弄熄
snuff out
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PHRASAL VERB 消灭,消除(分歧等)
To snuff out something such as a disagreement means to stop it, usually in a forceful or sudden way.Every time a new flicker of resistance appeared, the government snuffed it out...
一旦有抵抗的苗头出现时,政府总是迅速地加以消灭。
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PHRASAL VERB (用手)掐灭;(用物件)弄熄
If you snuff out a small flame, you stop it burning, usually by using your fingers or by covering it with something for a few seconds.Tenzin snuffed out the candle.
丹津掐灭了蜡烛。
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PHRASAL VERB 谋杀;干掉
If someone snuffs out someone else, they kill them.A bullet meant for Riley snuffs out a passing gangster...
一枚原本射向赖利的子弹意外击毙了一个路过的暴徒。
verb
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- put an end to;kill
- The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children
- Synonym: extinguish
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- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
- quench the flames
- snuff out the candles
- Synonym: blow out extinguish quench
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On the surface , the People 's Bank of China 's ( PBOC ) most recent and surprise interest rate rise on August 19 appears to be simply another example of how central banks globally are acting to snuff out the threat of inflation by tightening credit conditions .
从表面上看,中国人民银行(PBoC)8月19日最新一次上调利率的意外举措,似乎只不过是另一个例子,说明了全球央行是如何通过收紧信贷环境来消除通胀威胁的。
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Her goal was to snuff out all political opposition to her empress ambitions .
她的目的是要消除一切不利于她实现发女皇宏图的政治对抗。
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The recent rebound in mortgage rates could snuff out the housing recovery .
抵押贷款利率最近的回升可能会扼杀房地产的复苏。
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Technology may snuff out our desire to focus .
而科技产品可能扼杀了我们全神贯注的意愿。
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Ready to snuff out the world 's one hope for reason and justice .
准备要扼杀世界上对理智和正义的唯一希望。
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Grown man attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls .
这些大人试图扼杀年轻女孩儿们对未来的美好憧憬。
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Greedy heir wait for the old man to snuff out
贪心的继承人等待著老头断气
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Greedy heirs waited for the old man to snuff out .
贪心的继承人只待着老头断气。
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When we consciously or unconsciously make that decision , we snuff out that little voice in our head .
当我们有意或无意做出这样的决定时,我们就扼杀了心底那个微弱的声音。
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Just the idea of having a better camera than other people is enough to snuff out boring thoughts about usability .
单单想到自己有个比别人好的照相机就足以让自己忘却了照相机到底好在哪里。
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The empress dowager gave orders to snuff out the crown prince .
皇太后传旨杀掉皇太子。
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Section of the orchestra . The three musicians stop playing , snuff out candles by their music stands .
(部分交响乐队。三位乐手停止演奏,熄灭乐谱架旁的蜡烛。)
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It will take weeks to snuff out the burninggrassland .
熄灭草原上的火需要几星期的时间。
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We cannot allow violence to snuff out the aspirations of young women in America , and we must not accept it anywhere in the world .
我们绝不允许暴力行径扼杀美国年轻女性的理想抱负,也绝不容忍这种事情在全世界任何地方发生。
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The heirs and heiresses were sitting in the living room , waiting for the oil magnate to snuff out .
男女继承人坐在客厅时,等待这位煤油大王咽气。
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Supporters argue e-cigarettes can wean more than 40 million Americans from smoking and restricting them could snuff out a historic opportunity .
电子烟的支持者认为,电子烟能让超过4000万美国人戒掉传统香烟,禁止使用电子烟可能会扼杀一个难得的历史机遇。
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The key to deal with the problem is preventing the catabolism in net speech availably , but we cannot snuff out the creativity and vitality of it .
但如何进行规制,确保既不扼杀网络言论创造性和活力,又有效防止网络言论异化是要解决问题的关键。
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A bruised reed he will not break , and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out .
压伤的芦苇他不折断将残的灯火他不吹灭。
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And army of slaves , vast beyond imagining , ready to devour tiny Greece . Ready to snuff out the world 's one hope for reason and justice .
是一支奴隶大军,庞大得难超乎想象,准备要吞噬渺小的希腊,准备捏熄世上一个理性与正义的希望之火。
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This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education-grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls .
恐怖集团实施的这种丧尽天良的行为让这些女孩无法继续接受教育,这些成年男子想要掐灭这些女孩儿对未来的美好希望。
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And , as European countries embrace austerity budgets – cutting public spending sharply and raising taxes to reduce heavy public borrowing – there is the added risk that too much fiscal retrenchment could snuff out the tentative economic recovery .
欧洲国家开始收紧预算(大幅削减公共开支和增加税收,以减少巨额公共借贷),也带来了额外的风险:过度的财政紧缩可能会扼杀暂时的经济复苏。
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You 've got the power . You can do anything you want . You can snuff him out or not .
你已经大权在握,可以为所欲为了。你可以灭了他,也可以不这么做。
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But in this world there will be dream stealers , dream snatchers and dream killers that will squash your dream , extinguish and snuff it out of existence .
但在这个世界上还有偷梦者、夺梦者、杀梦者来捣碎你的梦想,扑灭并扼杀你的梦想,让它不复存在。
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Of course , what makes the scandal a huge deal for Alibaba and why the company has gone to extraordinary lengths to snuff it out is the apparent involvement of insiders on the sales staff in perpetrating the fraud .
当然,此次丑闻成为阿里巴巴的重大事件以及该公司如此不遗余力将其消灭于萌芽状态的的原因,正在于其销售队伍的内部人员显然共同参与了欺诈。
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I watched the first season with trepidation : at the time , I was living in Beijing and preparing to move to Washington , D.C. ( Are congressmen really lurking in parking garages waiting to snuff each other out ?)
我看第一季时提心吊胆:当时我正住在北京,并准备搬到华盛顿特区(难道国会议员真的潜伏在车库等待着消灭掉对方了吗?)