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。
• 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。
• A moment of mindless violence snuffed out his life.
  一时无谓的暴力结束了他的生命。
• Whatever hell winds blow, this is not a flame destined to be snuffed out.
  不管刮的是什么阴风，这股火焰可不是注定要给吹灭的。
• He leant forward and snuffed the candle.
  他俯下身掐灭了蜡烛。
• 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。
• The dog snuffed the scent of the fox.
  狗闻到了狐狸的臭迹。
• Waiting patiently and never raising his hopes too high, he lit a cigarette and then snuffed it out.
  他虽然耐心等着，早已不敢希望。点了一支烟，又捺灭了；
• At the end of the poem, the embers of my fire are about to be snuffed out.
  在诗的结尾，我生命之火的余烬即将熄灭。
• The candle guttered and snuffed out.
  蜡烛在风中淌蜡，终于熄掉了。