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choke on sth
常指因食物或异物噎住喉咙。
He almost choked on a fish bone.
他差点被鱼刺噎住。
窒息；呛住；噎住
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窒息；呛住；噎住
To be unable to breathe because the windpipe is blocked, for example by food.
He almost choked on a fish bone.
他差点被鱼刺噎住。
因气管阻塞而无法呼吸
To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
通过掐住或填塞气管使人无法呼吸或说话
To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
通过填满或堵塞来阻塞通道等
To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
阻碍或抑制,如生长、扩展、进步等；通过剥夺营养杀死植物；通过剥夺氧气熄灭火焰
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
choke
Base
原形
chokes
3rd person
第三人称单数
choking
-ing
现在分词
choked
Past
过去式
choked
Past participle
过去分词
She chokes on food easily.
她吃东西容易噎住。
He choked during the race.
他在比赛中窒息了。
They are choking the engine with too much fuel.
他们正用过多的燃油使发动机熄火。
规则动词
He choked on a piece of meat and had to be helped immediately.
他因一块肉噎住了，需要立即帮助。
She choked with emotion as she delivered her speech.
她发表演讲时因激动而哽咽。
I always choke under pressure and can't perform well.
我在压力下总是紧张得喘不过气，表现不佳。
常指因食物或异物噎住喉咙。
He almost choked on a fish bone.
他差点被鱼刺噎住。
及物用法，表示使人或物窒息、阻塞。
The thick smoke choked the firefighters.
浓烟呛得消防员喘不过气。
用于抑制情感如眼泪、愤怒等。
She choked back her tears during the speech.
她在演讲中强忍住眼泪。
不及物短语，指因激动或悲伤说不出话。
He chokes up every time he talks about his childhood.
每当他谈起童年，就会哽咽。
Not this
He choked a fish bone.
Use this
He choked on a fish bone.
动词choke表示'噎住'时是不及物的，需要用介词on引出噎住的东西。直接跟宾语是错误用法，类似于中文'噎到骨头'的正确表达应为'被骨头噎到'。
Not this
She strangled on a piece of steak.
Use this
She choked on a piece of steak.
Strangle意为'勒死'，通常指用手或绳子等外部力量使窒息；而choke on指食物或其他物体阻塞呼吸道导致窒息。学习者常混淆这两个词，误用strangle表达'噎住'的含义。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
被…噎住；因…呛到
He started to choke on a fish bone.
他被一根鱼刺噎住了。
窒息而死
The smoke almost choked her to death.
浓烟几乎使她窒息而死。
强忍住（眼泪、怒火等）
She choked back her tears and continued speaking.
她强忍住眼泪，继续发言。
（因激动）哽咽，说不出话
He choked up when he talked about his mother.
说到他母亲时，他哽咽了。
阻断；抑制
The new policy could choke off economic growth.
新政策可能会抑制经济增长。
因激动而哽咽，说不出话
She choked up when she saw the surprise party.
看到惊喜派对时，她哽咽得说不出话。
忍住（眼泪、笑声、愤怒等）
He choked back tears as he accepted the award.
他忍住眼泪接受了奖项。
勉强咽下；无奈接受
She choked down the bitter medicine.
她勉强咽下苦药。
看，兔子掉链子了，他气坏了，但他不会就这么轻易放弃，不，他不会认输。
In Eminem's song Lose Yourself, the rapper chokes in front of the microphone but refuses to give up.
在埃米纳姆的歌曲《Lose Yourself》中，这位说唱歌手在麦克风前发挥失常，但拒绝放弃。
Use choke naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
联想 choke 中 ch 像被呛住时喉咙的憋气声，ke 像“咳”，气管被堵咳不出，即窒息。
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常对话（吃东西呛到）、急救或安全提醒、新闻报道（描述窒息事件） choke 表示“噎住/呛住”时属于中性常用词，多用于日常对话、急救说明和新闻报道。具体使用时常说 choke on something（被某物噎到）。在更正式的医疗或法律文件中，医生或警方可能会用更专业的说法，但日常交际中 choke 很自然。
以上按英式发音：joke、spoke、woke、smoke、stroke 与 choke 同韵（/əʊk/）。注意 chock 拼写相近，但读 /tʃɒk/，与 /tʃəʊk/ 不同。
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