通过掐灭或闷灭的方式熄灭蜡烛或小火苗。
"She snuffed out the last candle and the room fell into complete darkness."
熄灭火焰;也可比喻突然终结或毁掉某事物。
熄灭蜡烛或小火;也指把生命、希望等突然彻底终止。
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通过掐灭或闷灭的方式熄灭蜡烛或小火苗。
"She snuffed out the last candle and the room fell into complete darkness."
使生命突然过早结束。
"The accident snuffed out the lives of three young people who had everything ahead of them."
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges — yet a young life snuffed out.
突然且彻底地终结某场运动、某个想法、希望或事业。
"The military coup snuffed out any hope of democratic reform within days."
In an instant, all that promise was snuffed out.
— Barack Obama, eulogy for the victims of the Charleston church shooting, June 2015
snuff 指掐灭或闷灭蜡烛芯,让火焰熄灭;这个本义很清楚。
熄灭蜡烛或小火;也指把生命、希望等突然彻底终止。
字面义(掐灭或闷灭蜡烛)现在较少见,因为日常用蜡烛的人少了。比喻义——终结生命、运动、希望或事业——非常常见,常用于较戏剧化或新闻写作。
母语者最常搭配使用的单词。
最常用的五种时态形式。
来自 YouTube 真实视频中 "snuff out" 的用法片段 — 点击可在 Looplines 上观看。
可互换使用的词组 — 点击已链接的可进一步了解。
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