snuffing

基本解释

• n.鼻菸；燭花
• v.掐滅；吹燈拔蠟（死亡）；扼殺；嗅；抽鼻子；剪燭花

同根派生

英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

• My grandfather used to take snuff.
  我祖父以前常吸鼻菸。
• Give the barber a pinch of snuff.
  給剃頭匠一撮鼻菸。
• At this moment on the ridge, up against the blazing sky, a flgure was visible, like the black snuff in the midst of a candle flame.
  恰在此時，在那山崗上，在那陽光絢麗的天際出現了一個身影，就象蠟燭火焰中的一個黑色燭花。

用作動詞 (v.)

• He leant forward and snuffed the candle.
  他頫下身掐滅了蠟燭。
• His dad snuffed it a couple of years ago.
  他爸爸兩年前就吹燈了。
• Moreover, such protests as have taken place have been easy to snuff out.
  而且，已經發生的這種抗議很容易遭到扼殺。