choke是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 闷塞, 压抑, 闷死，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you'll admit what a riddle it must have been for us when that calm, cold, little spitfire, Aglaya (for she stood up to her mother and answered her questions with inexpress-ible contempt, and mine still more so, because, like a fool, I thought it my duty to assert myself as head of the fam-ily) when Aglaya stood up of a sudden and informed us that 'that madwoman' (strangely enough, she used exactly the same expression as you did) 'has taken it into her head to marry me to Prince Lef Nicolaievitch, and therefore is doing her best to choke Evgenie Pavlovitch off, and rid the house of him.'
-- The prince did not exactly pant for breath, but he 'seemed almost to CHOKE out of pure simplicity and goodness of heart,' as Adelaida expressed it, on talking the party over with her fiance, the Prince S., next morning.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- growled Mr. Cruncher, 'it's you I have got a old grudge again, is it, with your shameful impositions upon tradesmen!I'd catch hold of your throat and choke you for half a guinea.'
-- Let him say he was, in so much as a word of one syl-lable, and I'll either catch hold of his throat and choke him for half a guinea;' Mr. Cruncher dwelt upon this as quite a liberal offer; 'or I'll out and announce him.'
-- ' Mr. Cruncher could not be restrained from making rather an ostentatious parade of his liberal-ity 'I'd catch hold of your throat and choke you for half a guinea.'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if sometimes I feel an exile, cold--I had to get out of Germany one time for refusing to sing Die Wacht am Rhein and trying to kill a cavalry captain--he was a stout fellow--I had to choke him--you see I am boasting, but I was a lifely Kerl thirty years ago!Ah!So!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- May you choke yourself!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll put my hand in no man's hand,' said Mr. Micawber, gasping,puffing, and sobbing, to that degree that he was like a man fightingwith cold water, 'until I have- blown to fragments- the- a-detestable- serpent- HEEP!I'll partake of no one's hospitality, untilI have- a- moved Mount Vesuvius- to eruption- on- a- theabandoned rascal- HEEP!Refreshment underneath this roof-particularly punchwould- a- choke me- unless- I had- previously-choked the eyes- out of the head- a- of- interminable cheat, andliar- HEEP!I- a- I'll know nobody- and- a- say nothing- and- a- livenowhere- until I have crushed- to- a- undiscoverable atomsthe-transcendent and immortal hypocrite and perjurer- HEEP!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And don't speak above your breath, or I'll choke you in good earnest.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll choke yourself some day, that's what you'll do, Cain Ball."
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now it was painful to have to choke back words for fear of his amused grin.
-- Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, pantingweight to tired, anxious hearts.
-- "Oh, I could choke you for scaring me so!Let's get on."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom, that lady assumed an unnatural fortitude of manner which I supposed to be expressive of an intention to drop and choke when out of view, and kissing her hand to Miss Havisham, was escorted forth.
-- I'd hold you under the pump, and choke it out of you."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been clearing his head with a lotion of cold water, as a good preparative to providing hot water for the heads of the jury, and had been reading with the neck of his shirt thrown wide open that he might the more freely choke the opposite witnesses.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He missed her, however, and she came walking in with a very queer expression of counte-nance, for there was a mixture of fun and fear, satisfaction and regret in it, which puzzled the family as much as did the roll of bills she laid before her mother, saying with a little choke in her voice, 'That's my contribution toward making Father comfortable and bringing him home!'
-- I only loved you all the more, and I worked hard to please you, and I gave up billiards and everything you didn't like, and waited and never complained, for I hoped you'd love me, though I'm not half good enough...' Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew story was this: He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles, embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head a peculiarity only true with respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this saying, "A penny roll would choke him"; his swallow is so very small.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come, the bread that this grain of corn will make won't choke us very soon!"
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