They prevent the ligand from reaching its natural receptor, and so that antagonizes or inhibits the function of the natural ligand.

它们能够阻止配体与受体的结合,这样就拮抗或者说是抑制了配体的功能

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The motor neurons are deactivated and then, because the way you breathe is through motor neurons, you then die.

运动神经元被抑制了,也因为你的呼吸是由运动神经元支配的,那接下来你就会死去

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Slowly I began to forge in the depths of my mind" this is the very top of the page--" a mechanism that repressed all the dreams and desires that the Chicago streets, the newspapers, the movies were evoking in me.

渐渐地，我开始进入自己的思想“,这是最上面的一句“,“这期间抑制住了芝加哥的街道、,报纸、电影在我心中唤起的，所有幻想和欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well, the answer is it inhibits the inhibitory parts of your brain.

答案就是,酒精抑制了在你大脑中,起抑制作用的脑组织的活动

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this stuff is repressed.

所以欲望受到了抑制。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选