choking

柯林斯詞典

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(fā)而窒息。
Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her. 濃密的煙霧盤旋翻騰，刺鼻的煙味使她窒息。
The girl choked to death after breathing in smoke. 那位女孩吸入煙霧后窒息而亡。
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(jìn)了附近一座大樓的入口處，然后在那里用他的領(lǐng)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。