核心畫面

One way to hold this word: air that has been pressed shut. You take a breath and nothing fresh comes in. A closed room in August feels like that, and so does a life with no space in it — the thing is still there, it simply cannot get any air.

可以想成:空氣被壓住了。你吸一口氣,卻沒有新鮮的進來。八月裡一間關著的房間是這樣,一種沒有餘地的生活也是這樣——東西更多收起可以想成:空氣被壓住了。你吸一口氣,卻沒有新鮮的進來。八月裡一間關著的房間是這樣,一種沒有餘地的生活也是這樣——東西都還在,就是透不到氣。這個字的每個用法,畫面都停在「吸不進來」的那一刻。

From the picture

人被悶住了

同一個「吸不到空氣」的畫面,從房間移到一個人的生活裡。

adjective · C1

Describing a situation, place or relationship that presses on you so closely that you cannot grow your own ideas or become the person you are.

令人窒息的(環境)

Also in this word

adjective · B2

So hot, still and airless that breathing feels difficult and you want to get outside.

悶熱得喘不過氣

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

stiflingadj/ˈstaɪflɪŋ/

  • 1

    That stifles.

    • The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
    • The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.

stiflingnoun/ˈstaɪflɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act by which something is stifled.

    • Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
    • Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。