窒息而死

The frogspawn needs air and would suffocate in the stagnant pool below.

蛙卵需要空气,在不流动的水池里会息而死.

But if the nextgovernment again flunks reform, it could be the peepul itself that issmothered.

但如果下一届政府的改革再度无疾而终，那可能菩树息而死了。