Choke
[tʃəʊk] or [tʃok]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.
(noun.) a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current.
(verb.) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; 'She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband'.
(verb.) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.
(verb.) reduce the air supply; 'choke a carburetor'.
(verb.) be too tight; rub or press; 'This neckband is choking the cat'.
(verb.) wring the neck of; 'The man choked his opponent'.
(verb.) check or slow down the action or effect of; 'She choked her anger'.
(verb.) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; 'The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience'.
弗朗西斯整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
(v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.
(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
整理:塞尔瓦托
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Suffocate, stifle, smother, strangle, throttle.[2]. Suppress, overpower, overcome, keep down.[3]. Obstruct, close, block, stop, bar.
v. n. Be choked.
弗兰克編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Throttle, strangle, gag, smother, burke, suffocate, stifle
ANT:Eliminate, educe, promote, demonstrate, discuss, disseminate, moot, bruit,ventilate
校對:维多利亚
解釋/意思:
v.t. to throttle: to suffocate: to stop or obstruct: to suppress.—v.i. to be choked or suffocated.—n. the action of choking.—n. Choke′-bore the bore of a gun when narrowed at the muzzle so as to concentrate the shot: a shot-gun so bored.—v.t. to bore in such a way.—n. Choke′-cherr′y a name given to certain nearly allied species of cherry natives of North America whose fruit though at first rather agreeable is afterwards astringent in the mouth.—adj. Choked suffocated clogged.—n. Choke′damp the carbonic acid gas given off by coal which accumulates in coal-mines and may suffocate those exposed to it.—adj. Choke′-full (see Chock-full).—ns. Chok′er one who chokes: a neckerchief; Chok′ing suffocation.—adj. smothering.—adj. Chok′y tending to choke: inclined to choke.—Choke off to put an end to as if by choking; Choke up to obstruct completely to suffocate.—White choker a white neckerchief worn by clergymen &c.
手打:梅尔瓦
例句/造句/用法:
- They only choke you. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In sleep, upon the march, night or day, he never knew when that quiet noose would slip about his neck and nearly choke the life out of him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He felt Agustín beside him start to cough, felt him hold it, choke and swallow. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It ended suddenly on its highest note with a choke and a gurgle. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I'd hold you under the pump, and choke it out of you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The Puritans tried to choke the craving for pleasure in early New England. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Her voice was choked as she went on--was quavering as with the contemplation of some strange, yet closely-present idea. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I wish Glowry was choked with her Man of Sin and her Battle of Armageddon, cried the other, and the carriage rolled away over Putney Bridge. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up and choked them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He drew his arms tightly over his bosom, and choked back the bitter tears, and tried to pray. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I saw him served with the best of everything--and I shouldn't have been sorry if the best of everything had choked him. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Two ropes would be put about the neck of each animal, with a slip noose, so that he could be choked if too unruly. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Looking round the office, as if her father were a captive and this his cell, Bella hugged him and choked him to her heart's content. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I went down to him, choking for breath, with my heart leaping as if it was like to leap out of me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- After giving a great heave, and with a purple choking face, he then began. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And, with streaming eyes and choking voice, the black man looked up to heaven. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Oh oh oh oh, then choking, Mama mama mia. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I felt that I was choking again--I taxed myself with it, Esther, now, you know you are! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Now she laughed--a little choking gurgle of a laugh; but it was enough. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was evident to him that he soon must die unless he tore loose from the steel fingers that were choking the life from him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The blood of Danton chokes him, cried someone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Next our peaceful Tupman comes, So rosy, plump, and sweet, Who chokes with laughter at the puns, And tumbles off his seat. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The two party system chokes off the cry of a minority--perhaps the best way there is of precipitating an explosion. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I taste it, smell it, see it, it chokes me, and then it breaks out like this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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