1.While countries differ, Europe has many ways of stifling modern retailing, from green belts and land-use restrictions to laws that prevent companies from lowering their prices.
尽管欧洲各国的情况不尽相同，但是`总的来讲，欧洲在很方面对现代零售业的发展有抑制作用，比如城市绿带、土地使用限制，还有禁止公司降价的法律。
2.Some elements of Confucians theories are still stifling Chinese people everywhere.
孔夫子的某些理论至今还对中国人影响巨大。
3.It is acid-resisting and Alkali-resisting, and no Stifling, rotting, absorbing water, and no worms. It has become the product instead of wood completely.
产品不怕虫蛀、不长细菌、抗酸碱、不吸水、不宜、不易变形、是天然木材的绝佳替代品。
4.We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed.
我们在那间关著窗户的热屋子里, 简直透不过气来.
5.But the family turned out to be a gang of militants who chained Nuss to the floor of a stifling, mosquito-ridden windowless room, took photos of him with a gun to his head and demanded the release of comrades jailed for fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
然而迎接努斯的并不是什么印度家庭，而是一群武装分子。他们用链子把努斯锁在一间令人窒息的、蚊子满天飞而且没有窗户的房间里，用枪指着他的脑袋，并拍下了当时的情形，以此要挟释放他们在同控制克什米尔地区的印度军队的激战中被俘的同伴。
6.I am stifling in this close room .
在这密不透风的房间里我感到窒息。
7.Where it is not needed, it has only started to give up its habit of stifling private enterprise.
只在一些不必要的地方，印度政府开始放弃压制私有企业发展的习惯。
8.The stifling atmosphere of the royal court, with all its petty restrictive rules
宫廷里那令人窒息的气氛，因为有各种繁文褥节
9.Members of the Society indulge in a wide range of criminal (sometimes almost terrorist) activities and argue for the overthrow of the stifling chains of society.
这个组织的成员总是沉溺于进行大范围的犯罪（通常是恐怖活动）并企图推翻现在沉闷的社会。
10.If anyone will study the causes of retarded recuperation in Europe, he will find much of it due to the stifling of private initiative on one hand, and overloading of the Government with business on the other.
如果有人研究一下欧洲复原迟缓的原因，他将发现主要是由于一方面扼杀了私人的积极性，另一方面政府经营管理的担子太重。
