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。
• Old Tom snuffed out last weekend.
  老汤姆上个周末死了。
• 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。
• The greatest secret agent england's ever had snuffed out in an instant.
  英国有史以来最伟大的特工转眼间就毙命了。
• It can be smoked, sucked, chewed or snuffed.
  可以抽吸、咀嚼或鼻吸。
• The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children.
  纳粹党消灭了好多犹太小孩的生命。
• His hopes were nearly snuffed out.
  他的希望几乎都被打破了。
• And so these two lives were snuffed out.
  这两个叫化子就是这样一命呜呼了。
• The complication snuffed out his hope of recovery.
  并发症使他痊愈的希望破灭了。