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。
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。