snuffed

英 [snʌft]

美 [snʌft]

v.  掐灭，闷熄，熄灭(小火苗); 出声地嗅
snuff的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• 鼻烟
  Snuffis powdered tobacco which people take by breathing it in quickly through their nose.
• VERB 断气;死去
  If someonesnuffs it, they die.
  1. He thought he was about to snuff it.
     他觉得自己快要咽气了。

双语例句

• Thousands of lives were snuffed out during the famine.
  饥荒夺去了成千上万人的生命。
• The candle guttered and snuffed out.
  蜡烛在风中淌蜡，终于熄掉了。
• 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。
• She smoked and snuffed almost to the hour of her death.
  她终生抽烟和吸鼻烟几乎到临终的时刻为止。
• He snuffed out the match with his fingertips.
  他用指尖掐灭了火柴。
• He leant forward and snuffed the candle.
  他俯下身掐灭了蜡烛。
• His hopes were nearly snuffed out.
  他的希望几乎都被打破了。
• The men in the cabin snuffed the candle and went to sleep.
  住在小屋里的人熄灭了蜡烛去睡觉了。
• Harry, I dreaded beyond all things the knowledge that it had been I who brought about her death, not merely through my arrogance and stupidity, but that I actually struck the blow that snuffed out her life.
  哈利，我从心底最害怕的是得知是我造成了她的死亡，不仅是由于我的狂傲和愚蠢，而且还是我朝她发出了那致命的一击。
• Like candles guttering in the wind, three of the worlds eight subspecies of tigers have been snuffed out.
  像风中燃烧的蜡烛，世界上八个老虎的属种已经有三个灭绝了。