The technology industry was coming under the sway of a dominant behemoth, one that had the potential to stifle innovation and squash its competitors.
科技行业正在受到一个占据主导地位的庞然大物的影响，这个庞然大物有可能扼杀创新，打压竞争对手。
She makes no attempt to stifle a yawn.
她并未试图忍住一个哈欠。
They hope the new rules will not stifle creativity.
他们希望新规则不会压制创意。
State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.
国家官僚体制会压抑人的进取心和积极性。
Dickon laughed so that he was obliged to stifle the sound by putting his arm over his mouth.
狄肯笑了起来，他不得不用他的胳膊捂住他的嘴，把声音压住。
她忍住了呵欠。
He managed to stifle the spasmodic sobs of panic rising in his throat.
他竭力地抑制了自己，没从喉咙中发出惊恐的哭声。
Think owning a franchise will stifle your creative side?
你觉得开连锁店等于扼杀自己的创造力吗？
Express you individuality. Don't stifle your curiosity.
张扬你的个性，更别抑制了你的好奇心。
Groups, though, if badly organised, can stifle lofty ambitions.
但如果组织不善，群体就会扼杀人们蓬勃的抱负。
Could a premature or overenthusiastic fiscal tightening stifle the recovery?
那么一个过早实施的财政紧缩政策会将经济复苏扼杀于摇篮之中吗？
The story turns on whether broader changes in bookselling will stifle literature.
故事中最主要的话题是售书业的大变革是否会抑制文学。
That will only stifle your creativity and could make your writing seem dry and unoriginal.
这只会抑制你的创造力，可能让你的作品看上去干瘪，没有原创色彩。
While a recessed floor helps stifle outside noise, the walls will be clad in wooden lamellas.
而凹陷的地板有助于抑制外部噪声，墙上会覆一层木制的薄片。
Viktor Orban, the prime minister, says further cuts will stifle his country's economic recovery.
首相维克托•奥班认为继续紧缩财政将会不利于匈牙利的经济复苏。
Good governance does not consist of a set of shackles and business controls that stifle creativity.
良好的治理不包含抑制创造性的束缚和业务控制。
He wants to help the market grow-creating 1m jobs in China in the next three years-not stifle it with charges.
他希望促进这个市场进一步壮大——今后三年内在中国创造100万个就业岗位，而不是用收费来扼杀之。
Internet ideas are rarely patented and rightly so, he says: patents create a temporary monopoly which tends to stifle competition.
互联网点子难获专利，现实也确实如此，他称：专利引发暂时性垄断，这往往会遏制竞争。
So when the current general election officially kicked off on April 27th, anyone could be forgiven for struggling to stifle a yawn.
因此，当本轮大选于4月27日正式开始时，任何努力掩饰倦意者都可以被原谅。
Yet a slump in share prices could stifle new-found investor confidence in equities and limit the amount of capital raised from the market.
但股价的暴跌可能扼杀投资者对股市重新树立的信心，降低股市筹资额。
Efforts to stifle gossip may be naive and limiting, says Susan Hafen, a professor of communication at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.
犹他州Ogden市韦伯州立大学(Weber State University)传媒学教授苏珊•哈芬(SusanHafen)说，抑制流言蜚语的努力似乎有些天真和片面。
A move to curb deficits by raising taxes or cutting spending could stifle the recovery, as the Japanese did by raising the consumption tax in 1997.
通过增税或者削减(财政)支出来控制赤字可能抑制经济复苏，正像日本在1997年增加消费税一样。
HINDQUARTERS: Strong and flexible, well angulated stifle. Legs short. Ample bone carried right down to feet. Hocks straight when viewed from behind.
后躯：强壮且灵活，后膝关节成角自然。大腿短。骨宽，直下至脚。后视时，跗关节直。
HINDQUARTERS: Strong and flexible, well angulated stifle. Legs short. Ample bone carried right down to feet. Hocks straight when viewed from behind.
后躯：强壮且灵活，后膝关节成角自然。大腿短。骨宽，直下至脚。后视时，跗关节直。
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