suffocating

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At that time the government took a suffocating interest in a firm’s imports and output.
在那個時候，政府對企業的進口貨物和輸出量征收了令人窒息的利息。
A city that has one tailor for every 220 people can be overwhelming: it's a little like suffocating in a sea of wool.
每220個人中就有一個裁縫的城鎮是令人折服的：這就象在一個羊毛的海洋中讓人有點窒息。
Cracks can always be found for it to penetrate, levels where it can go on developing, ways in which, even in this suffocating milieu, it can arrange itself into stories.
生活縂能夠找到一些裂隙去穿透，一些層麪去發展，一些即使是在這樣令人窒息的環境中，還是能夠去形成自己的故事的方式。

Again, the Swedish, the "Swedish cocktail" Was sort of suffocating people by stuffing manure down their throat until they died.
還有瑞典人有一種殺人方法把糞便塞入喉嚨,令人窒息,就叫做"瑞典雞尾酒"
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節選

It still relies on the innate fear of drowning and suffocating to coerce confessions.
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It was an agreeable childhood, but as a young woman she found home life suffocating.
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But a suffocating legacy of local political scandal supplies the most constant campaign theme.
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(NO AIR) Something that is suffocating makes you feel uncomfortably hot or unable to breathe.
(PREVENTING) preventing something or someone from improving or developing in a positive way

If someone suffocates or is suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
suffocation
If you say that you are suffocating or that something is suffocating you, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.