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At that time the government took a suffocating interest in a firm’s imports and output.
在那个时候，政府对企业的进口货物和输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个人中就有一个裁缝的城镇是令人折服的：这就象在一个羊毛的海洋中让人有点窒息。
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.
生活总能够找到一些裂隙去穿透，一些层面去发展，一些即使是在这样令人窒息的环境中，还是能够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.
还有瑞典人有一种杀人方法把粪便塞入喉咙,令人窒息,就叫做"瑞典鸡尾酒"
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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.