n.[C]
- 咽喉,喉嚨
I have a sore
throat.
我喉嚨痛。
- 喉頭;頸前部
- 咽喉狀部分;入口;窄路
The
throat of a mine
礦井的巷道口
- 【口】咽喉痛[S1]
- 嗓音,嗓門
She sang at the top of her
throat.
她放開嗓門大聲歌唱。
片語
at each other's throats
- 互相攻擊;互相撕打
They were again
at each other's throats.
他們又互相扭打起來。
cram sth. down sb.'s throat
- 強迫某人接受某事
Why are you always trying to
cram your own ideas down my throat?
你為什麼老想把你自己的想法強加給我呢?
jump down sb.'s throat
- 粗暴地打斷某人的談話
It's impolite to
jump down others' throats.
粗暴地打斷別人的談話是不禮貌的。
lie in one's throat/teeth
- 撒大謊
He was
lying in his throat when he told you that.
他對你說的話實在是個天大的謊言。
stick in sb.'s throat
- 使某人無法接受
It
sticks in his throat to have to take any order from his boss.
要他對老板百依百順真使他無法接受。
辨析
n.
- the passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal.
▸the front part of the neck.
- literary a voice of a person or a songbird.
- Sailing the forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
Phrase
- be at each other's throats
quarrel or fight. - force something down someone's throat
force something on a person's attention. - stick in one's throat
be unwelcome or unacceptable.
Derivative
Etymology
OE throte, throtu, of Gmc origin; cf. throttle.