1. Business must adapt to this new psychology or asphyxiate. 企业必须适应这种新的心理，否则就会窒息而亡。
2. We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us. 在我们被这些有毒气体窒息之前，必须查出其来源。
3. They can asphyxiate you, burn you, bury you alive, or crush you under debris. 它们会令你窒息，灼烧你，埋葬一切生机，或者将你掩埋在废墟之下。
英英解释
v.
1. deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
2. impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
3. be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
