1·There was a stifling smell of hot oil everywhere.
到处都有令人窒息的热油气味。
2·It has been said of Beethoven that he toppled the rules and freed music from the stifling confines of convention.
据说贝多芬推翻了规则，把音乐从令人窒息的传统束缚中解放了出来。
3·Working in stifling tents filled with patients, the team tended to those whose doctors had left and were in need of follow-up care.
在满是病人令人窒息的帐篷里工作，这个护理小组首先考虑那些医生已经离开、又急需后续护理的病人。
4·They cheered the absence of the stifling tents in which they studied last spring.
他们为令人窒息的帐篷的消失而欢呼，他们上个春天曾在其中学习。
5·A generation from now it may be too late to find an answer and perhaps impossible, in the stifling collective climate of that future time, even to ask the question.
或许一代人解决不了，或许在将来令人窒息的大众氛围下这种问题都不能提出来。