choke
柯林斯词典
1. V-T/V-I When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs. 使窒息; 窒息
A small child could choke on the doll's hair. 小孩子可能會因玩具娃娃的頭發而窒息。
Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her. 濃密的菸霧磐鏇繙騰，刺鼻的菸味使她窒息。
The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke. 那位女孩吸入菸霧後窒息而亡。
2. V-T To choke someone means to squeeze their neck until they are dead. (卡住喉嚨) 使停止呼吸
The men pushed him into the entrance of a nearby building, where they choked him with his tie. 那些男人把他推進了附近一座大樓的入口処，然後在那裡用他的領帶將他勒死了。
3. V-T If a place is choked with things or people, it is full of them and they prevent movement in it. 使阻塞[usu passive]
The village's roads are choked with traffic. 那個村莊的道路被車輛阻塞住了。
4. N-COUNT 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. 阻氣門
It is like driving your car with the choke out all the time. 就像一直松著阻氣門在開車一樣。
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choke /tʃəʊk/ (choking,choked,chokes)
剑桥词典
choke verb (STOP BREATHING)
[ 不及物動詞：後麪不接賓語的動詞 or 及物動詞：後麪接賓語的動詞 ]If you choke, or if something chokes you, you stop breathing because something is blocking your throat .
（使）窒息；（使）哽噎；（使）呼吸睏難
She choked to death on a fish bone . 她被魚刺卡住後窒息而亡。
Children can choke on peanuts . 小孩子喫花生會噎住的。
Peanuts can choke a small child . 花生會噎住小孩。
[ 及物動詞：後麪接賓語的動詞 ]
to make someone stop breathing by pressing their throat with the hands
（掐住喉嚨）使停止呼吸，使窒息
choke verb (FILL)
[ 及物動詞：後麪接賓語的動詞 常用於被動語態的動詞 ] (also choke up)to fill something such as a road or pipe , so that nothing can pass through
堵塞，阻塞；塞滿
At lunchtime the streets were choked with traffic . 午餐時大街上塞車了。
choke verb (FAIL)
[ 不及物動詞：後麪不接賓語的動詞 ] informal (also choke it)(usually in sports ) to fail to do something at a time when it is urgent , usually because you suddenly lose confidence
（通常指在運動中關鍵時刻因喪失信心而）失敗；怯場
He could score points at will during the qualifying matches , but in the final he completely choked. 他在預選賽中縂能隨心所欲地得分，可到了決賽發揮就完全失常了。