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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

扼杀

èshā

to strangle

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to strangle

02

to throttle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 扼杀 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 扼杀 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

孩子们在室内待得越来越长。这扼杀了很多孩子们的发展机会。我们考虑到的特别是孩子们的运动,知识和语言发展。hái zi men zài shì nèi dài dé yuè lái yuè zhǎng。 zhè è shā le hěn duō hái zi men de fā zhǎn jī huì。 wǒ men kǎo lǜ dào de tè bié shì hái zi men de yùn dòng, zhī shí hé yǔ yán fā zhǎn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

在今后的情况下,一个生来就没有别人教养的人,他也许简直就不成样子。偏见、权威、需要、先例以及压在我们身上的一切社会制度都将扼杀他的天性,而不会给它添加什么东西。zài jīn hòu de qíng kuàng xià, yí gè shēng lái jiù méi yǒu bié rén jiào yǎng de rén, tā yě xǔ jiǎn zhí jiù bù chéng yàng zi。 piān jiàn、 quán wēi、 xū yào、 xiān lì yǐ jí yā zài wǒ men shēn shàng de yī qiè shè huì zhì dù dōu jiāng è shā tā de tiān xìng, ér bú huì gěi tā tiān jiā shén me dōng xī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 扼杀.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 扼杀.

Directly before

  • 将扼杀1
  • 这扼杀1

Directly after

  • 扼杀他1
  • 扼杀了1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 扼杀

What does 扼杀 mean in Chinese?

扼杀 (èshā) means to strangle.

How do you pronounce 扼杀?

扼杀 is pronounced èshā.

Is 扼杀 an HSK word?

扼杀 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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