| 单词 | choke |
| 释义 | choke (tʃoʊk ) Word forms: chokes , choking , choked 1. verb When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs. The coffee was almost too hot to swallow and made him choke for a moment. [VERB] A small child could choke on the doll's hair. [VERB + on] Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her. [VERB noun] The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke. [VERB + to] Within minutes the hall was full of choking smoke. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: suffocate, stifle, smother, overpower 2. verb To choke someone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead. The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building where they choked him with his tie. [VERB noun] Synonyms: strangle, throttle, asphyxiate 3. verb [usually passive] If a place is choked with things or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it. The village's roads are choked with traffic. [be VERB-ed + with] His pond has been choked by the fast-growing weed. [be VERB-ed + by] Synonyms: block, dam, clog, obstruct 4. countable noun [usually singular] The choke in a car, truck, or other vehicle is a device that reduces the amount of air going into the engine and makes it easier to start. Phrasal verbs: choke back phrasal verb If you choke back tears or a strong emotion, you force yourself not to show your emotion. Choking back tears, he said Mary died in his arms. [VERB PARTICLE noun] choke off phrasal verb To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow. They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Collocations: choke point Insiders said they would offer protection for ships sailing through the perilous choke point if they asked for assistance. The Sun It was exactly the kind of choke point that they wanted to avoid. Times, Sunday Times It signals recognition that efforts to clear the economic choke point, the banks, are needed and that to get the economy moving, they have to start lending again. Times, Sunday Times It was the phrase 'choke point' that made the mind unfurl. Times, Sunday Times Alternately, a choke point identifier can be received by the moving tag, and then relayed, usually via a second wireless channel, to a location processor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 哽住, 阻气门 Japanese: 息が詰まる, チョーク |
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