choke

英 [tʃəʊk]

美 [tʃoʊk]

v.  (使)窒息，哽噎; (掐住喉咙)使停止呼吸，使窒息; (尤指感情激动而)说不出话来，使哽咽
n.  (车辆发动机的)阻风门，阻塞门; 窒息; 哽噎; 哽噎声; 呛住的声音

过去式：choked　现在分词：choking　过去分词：choked　第三人称单数：chokes　复数：chokes　

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同义词辨析

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短语动词

短语用例

choke sth↔back

• 强忍住；抑制；克制
  to try hard to prevent your feelings from showing
  1. He was choking on a piece of toast.
     他被一块烤面包噎得透不过气来。
  2. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
     她几乎被浓烟呛死。
  3. Very small toys can choke a baby.
     很小的玩具可使婴儿窒息。

choke sth↔down

• 硬咽；硬吞
  to swallow sth with difficulty
  1. His voice was choking with rage.
     他气得声音哽咽。
  2. Despair choked her words.
     她绝望得说不出话来。
  3. ‘I can't bear it,’ he said in a choked voice.
     “我实在忍不下去了。”他声音哽咽地说道。

choke sth↔off

• 阻止；制止；限制
  to prevent or limit sth
• 打断；停止；终止
  to interrupt sth; to stop sth

choke out

choke out sth

• （因感情激动而）哽咽着说，哽咽地说出某事
  to say sth with great difficulty because you feel a strong emotion

choke up

• （因感情激动而）哽咽
  to find it difficult to speak, because of the strong emotion that you are feeling

牛津词典

verb

• （使）窒息，哽噎
  to be unable to breathe because the passage to your lungs is blocked or you cannot get enough air; to make sb unable to breathe
  1. He was choking on a piece of toast.
     他被一块烤面包噎得透不过气来。
  2. She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
     她几乎被浓烟呛死。
  3. Very small toys can choke a baby.
     很小的玩具可使婴儿窒息。
• （掐住喉咙）使停止呼吸，使窒息
  to make sb stop breathing by squeezing their throat
  1. He may have been choked or poisoned.
     他可能是被掐死或毒死的。
• （尤指感情激动而）说不出话来，使哽咽
  to be unable to speak normally especially because of strong emotion; to make sb feel too emotional to speak normally
  1. His voice was choking with rage.
     他气得声音哽咽。
  2. Despair choked her words.
     她绝望得说不出话来。
  3. ‘I can't bear it,’ he said in a choked voice.
     “我实在忍不下去了。”他声音哽咽地说道。
• 阻塞，塞满，堵塞（通道、空间等）
  to block or fill a passage, space, etc. so that movement is difficult
  1. The pond was choked with rotten leaves.
     池塘被腐烂的叶子塞满了。
  2. The roads are choked up with traffic.
     几条马路都在塞车。
• （因紧张等而）失败，失灵，失去作用
  to fail at sth, for example because you are nervous

noun

• （车辆发动机的）阻风门，阻塞门
  a device that controls the amount of air flowing into the engine of a vehicle
• 窒息；哽噎；哽噎声；呛住的声音
  an act or the sound of choking

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)噎住;(使)哽住;(使)卡住
  When youchokeor when somethingchokesyou, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
  1. The coffee was almost too hot to swallow and made him choke for a moment...
     咖啡烫得几乎咽不下去，呛得他好一会儿喘不过气来。
  2. A small child could choke on the doll's hair...
     洋娃娃的头发可能会让小孩窒息。
  3. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her...
     滚滚浓烟盘旋翻腾，恶臭味呛得她喘不过气来。
  4. The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke...
     那个女孩吸入烟雾，窒息而死。
  5. Within minutes the hall was full of choking smoke.
     几分钟不到，大厅里就弥漫着呛人的烟雾了。
• VERB 掐死;扼死;勒死
  Tochokesomeone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead.
  1. The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building where they choked him with his tie.
     那些人把他推进附近大楼的入口处，用他的领带勒死了他。
• VERB 挤满;塞满
  If a placeis choked withthings or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it.
  1. The village's roads are choked with traffic...
     村里的路上挤满了车辆行人。
  2. His pond has been choked by the fast-growing weed.
     他的池塘里长满了恣意蔓生的杂草。
• (汽车、卡车等的)阻气门
  Thechokein 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.

英英释义

noun

• a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
• a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
  Synonym:choke coilchoking coil

verb

• breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
  1. She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband
• cause to retch or choke
  Synonym:gag
• struggle for breath
  1. he swallowed a fishbone and gagged
  Synonym:gagstranglesuffocate
• constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
  Synonym:strangle
• reduce the air supply
  1. choke a carburetor
  Synonym:throttle
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  1. She died from cancer
  2. The children perished in the fire
  3. The patient went peacefully
  4. The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
  Synonym:diedeceaseperishgoexitpass awayexpirepasskick the bucketcash in one's chipsbuy the farmconkgive-up the ghostdrop deadpop offcroaksnuff it
• suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
  1. His job suffocated him
  Synonym:suffocate
• become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
  1. He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village
  Synonym:suffocate
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
  1. The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
  Synonym:suffocatestifleasphyxiate
• become or cause to become obstructed
  1. The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
  2. The water pipe is backed up
  Synonym:clogchoke offclog upback upcongestfoul
• be too tight
  1. This neckband is choking the cat
  Synonym:gagfret
• wring the neck of
  1. The man choked his opponent
  Synonym:scrag
• check or slow down the action or effect of
  1. She choked her anger
• fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
  1. The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience

双语例句

• Choke back your tears.
  忍住你的眼泪。
• I was really nervous but I didn't choke.
  我真的很紧张，但我还没紧张到窒息。
• Smoking is harmful, and I have to choke my husband off.
  吸烟是有害的，我不得不强行阻止我丈夫。
• And I bet he would choke on it.
  我打赌他可能会因此窒息的。
• We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end.
  我们会在我们的呕吐物中窒息，这就是我们的回宿。
• Not only has the choke changed colour, but you can clearly see the rust underneath the lacquer.
  不仅仅是电感改变了颜色，你还能清晰的看到漆料下也有生锈。
• The brandy made him choke, but it restored his nerve
  虽说白兰地呛了他一下，却让他恢复了勇气。
• She looked like she was going to choke.
  而她看起来仿佛都要窒息了。
• It's enough to make them choke with apoplectic rage
  足以气得让他们说不出话来。
• Hears the bad news which his mother died he to cry he to cry to choke with sobs.
  听到他母亲去世的坏消息他哭了他哭的泣不成声了。