throat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 咽喉, 嗓子，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He eyed his fair flesh over and over to see where he could best wound it, but all was protected by the goodly armour of which Hector had spoiled Patroclus after he had slain him, save only the throat where the collar-bones divide the neck from the shoulders, and this is a most deadly place: here then did Achilles strike him as he was coming on towards him, and the point of his spear went right through the fleshy part of the neck, but it did not sever his windpipe so that he could still speak.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm bound to cut my throat to-morrow.
-- The brute was dead, but still gripping Montgomery's throat with its curving claws.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge.
-- It was then that Mowgli made up a song that came up into his throat all by itself, and he shouted it aloud, leaping up and down on the rattling skin, and beating time with his heels till he had no more breath left, while Gray Brother and Akela howled be-tween the verses.
-- And Darzee filled his throat and sang.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was met by Chingachgook, whose knife passed across its throat quick-er than thought, and then precipitating the motions of the struggling victim, he dashed into the river, down whose stream it glided away, gasping audibly for breath with its ebbing life.
-- Ay, lady, the fine cobweb-looking cloth you wear at your throat is coarse, and like a fishnet, to little spots I can show you, where the river fabricates all sorts of images, as if having broke loose from order, it would try its hand at everything.
-- Can he slay a buck for their dinner; journey by the moss on the beeches, or cut the throat of a Huron?
-- 'I can now read the whole of it, as plainly as if I had seen the arts of Le Subtil,' he added; 'the singer being a man whose gifts lay chiefly in his throat and feet, was made to go first, and the others have trod in his steps, imitating their formation.'
-- Ay, ay, a man who uses his throat altogether, can hardly give his legs a proper training.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boy could only point to the window, and reply with a stifled giggle, expressive of such intense enjoyment, that Quilp clutched him by the throat and might have carried his threat into execution, or at least have made very good progress towards that end, but for the boy's nimbly extricating himself from his grasp, and fortifying himself behind the nearest post, at which, after some fruitless attempts to catch him by the hair of the head, his master was obliged to come to a parley.
-- CHAPTER 60Kit stood as one entranced, with his eyes opened wide and fixed upon the ground, regardless alike of the tremulous hold which Mr Brass maintained on one side of his cravat, and of the firmer grasp of Miss Sally upon the other; although this latter detention was in itself no small inconvenience, as that fascinating woman, besides screwing her knuckles inconveniently into his throat from time to time, had fastened upon him in the first instance with so tight a grip that even in the disorder and distraction of his thoughts he could not divest himself of an uneasy sense of choking.
-- 'Toss it off, don't leave any heeltap, scorch your throat and be happy!'
-- His first shout was answered by an old man within, who presently appeared at the casement, wrapping some garment round his throat as a protection from the cold, and demanded who was abroad at that unseasonable hour, wanting him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all rose, and the foreman, standing now on one foot, now on the other, cleared his throat and read the questions and answers.
-- She was not sleeping, but lay, her coat under her head, with wide-open eyes, and with difficulty retaining in her throat the tickling, gurgling phlegm, so as not to cough.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing.
-- Further, I threw a scrap of paper into the throat of one, and, instead of fluttering slowly down, it was at once sucked swiftly out of sight.
-- I shook her off, perhaps a little roughly, and in another moment I was in the throat of the well.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache.
-- In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten: his promise and the doctor's warning were both things of the past, and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispaniola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs and whitish bellies, armed with eleven rows of teeth eyed sharks their throat being marked with a large black spot surrounded with white like an eye.
-- Soon we were enveloped to the throat in india-rubber clothing; the air apparatus fixed to our backs by braces.
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