Definition of throat in English:

throat

noun θrəʊtθroʊt

1The passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal.
咽，（咽）喉
her throat was parched with thirst
he's pouring beer down his throat
Example sentencesExamples
- Every cough that racked his body grated on his throat and made his mouth feel like sandpaper.
- Excess body weight contributes to obstructive sleep apnea, as does extra tissue at the back of your mouth and in your throat.
- Throat infections, sore throats, and upper respiratory tract infections were measured in episodes and days.
- Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth.
- We suffered nosebleeds and blisters in our sinuses, throats, and mouths.
- Bile was burning my mouth, my throat and chest were so tight, the nausea was overpowering.
- The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear.
- When you have a cold, the tiny tube that connects your throat and middle ear is often blocked.
- The trachea is situated immediately in front of the esophagus, the passageway that connects the throat with the stomach.
- The Eustachian tube connects your middle ear to your throat (as shown on the illustration above).
- That's when the nausea set in, and he quickly moved to cover his mouth in case his throat muscles failed to suppress the vomit.
- By day four, the face flushed and the first painful lesions appeared - not on the surface of the skin, but in the mouth, throat and nasal passages.
- It causes the nerves at the back of the throat to signal the blood vessels to dilate - and fast.
- So for example if he were to eat a raw apple, he would get itchiness in his mouth, his throat, may get a feeling of some swelling in his lips and his tongue.
- The soft palate forms a curtain between the mouth and the throat, or pharynx, to the rear.
- The sound thus produced is amplified in the throat, mouth, nose and sinuses and streams out as an individual's voice.
- Suddenly our conversation came to an abrupt halt, our breath caught in our throats and our mouths hung open with astonishment.
- The spicy, and burning taste of bile and stomach acid burned my throat and mouth.
- When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose.
- The hospital will use the money to buy a laser to treat abnormal lining in the throat which can lead to oesophageal cancer.
Synonyms
gullet, oesophagus
windpipe, trachea
crop, craw, maw
neck
technical pharynx, oropharynx, fauces, gorget
informal, dated the red lane
archaic throttle, gorge, gula
1. 1.1 The front part of a person's or animal's neck.
  a gold pendant gleamed at her throat
  一个金链坠在她的颈前熠熠生辉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He allowed his hand to trail down her neck and across her throat.
  The great vein of the throat - the lower neck - the wrist - they are all suitable.
  There as a long, white scar that ran from under his pointy chin, down the front of his throat, and to the middle of his collarbone.
  Quickly he placed the knife in front of her throat causing the girl to jump slightly.
  My other hand, placed at the front of my throat, fingered the warm tip of the blade.
  For boys, when the larynx grows bigger, it tilts to a different angle inside the neck and part of it sticks out at the front of the throat.
  For the male, an orangish-light rufous color covered the area around the eye extending down the side of the face and the front of the throat.
  His mouth trails down the column of my neck, my throat bare and arched up towards him in an attitude of complete submission and surrender.
  He said she grabbed the victim by her clothing around her neck and not her throat.
  A silver necklace gleamed from around her throat, accenting her delicate neck.
  At this point, pressure is applied to the suspect's neck between the throat and the carotid artery with the lower forearm.
  Her palm was wrapped around the front of his throat, and he gagged once or twice.
  Out of the corner of her eye, Mandy suddenly spotted one of her aides making frantic cutting motions across the throat while waving the front page of the Sun.
  He currently has a Latvian scarf around his neck to keep his throat warm.
  Destine nodded, trailing her fingers across the front of his throat.
  The strange mark seemed to go right across his throat, at the front, where the windpipe would be.
  Suddenly a pair of hands grabbed her throat from in front of her and began to choke her.
  I couldn't help but sigh as he softly kissed my neck, my throat.
  A small moan escaped her pink lips as she tilted her head to allow him better access to her throat and neck.
  He smiled as he traced his fingernails down Ford's cheek, then dug them into the front of his throat.
2. 1.2literary A voice of a person or a songbird.
  〈诗/文〉嗓音，嗓门；歌喉
  from a hundred throats came the cry ‘Vive l'Empereur!’
  成百个嗓门同时喊出“皇帝万岁！”
  Example sentencesExamples
  The word "papa" shouted by a thousand angry throats was carried up to the windows above.
  There was the water-on-shale sound of amusement hissed from a dozen throats.
  "Forever," came back the hushed whisper from a hundred throats.
  I screamed over and over until I could not feel my throat screaming anymore.
  Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell
3. 1.3 A thing compared to a throat, especially a narrow passage, entrance, or exit.
  咽喉状部分（尤指狭窄通道、进出管路）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The extra deep throat of the gauge enables materials to be measured up to 4 3/4 inches from the edge of a sheet.
  What we have to imagine now is that a tiny piece of that skin is pinched off, forming a little blister connected to the Universe by a narrow throat - the black hole.
  They had decided to meet the Utuku in the narrow throat in the Papti Plain between the Lolopopo Swamp and the great bend of the Adkapo.
4. 1.4Sailing The forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
  〔航海〕（肋材、锚臂或前后帆等的）弯曲处，凹口
  Example sentencesExamples
  The throat of the sail is lashed with a 4 mm lacing line to the shank of the bolt behind the gaff jaw.
  When the throat halliard is belayed, hoist the peak until deep, full wrinkles appear in the throat of the sail.
  A single halyard to the throat of the sail is an alternative to lashing the throat permanently to the masthead, and it facilitates reefing.

Phrases

be at each other's throats

(of people or organizations) quarrel or fight persistently.
（人，机构）激烈争吵，吵架；打架，斗殴
they were always at each other's throats
Example sentencesExamples
- Eighty years ago, T.E. Lawrence's genius was to weld a few Hejaz tribes into a biddable unit, but they were at each other's throats by the time they reached the gates of Damascus.
- Are we always going to be at each other's throats?
- They're always pictured in the history books as being at each other's throats…
- But by now Stanley and Barker were at each other's throats.
- Far from peaceably agreeing with one another, we were at each other's throats about the Schappelle Corby trial.
- Barely a week goes by when the duo are not portrayed by a voracious media as being at each other's throats.
- When I first met Josh, we were at each other's throats for a long time; we would fight, we would hate each other.
- Unfortunately, none of the mutts got on and were at each other's throats like rabid pit bulls.
- Within weeks, Lily and I - previously ensconced in an enviably stress-free marriage - were at each other's throats.
- There's an arrogant actor who thinks he's God, so everybody is at each other's throats so it's a matter of keeping everything under control.
Synonyms
argue, quarrel, row, have a row, bicker, squabble, have words, debate, disagree, have a disagreement, have an altercation, be at odds, bandy words

cut one's own throat

Bring about one's own downfall by one's actions.
Example sentencesExamples
- Pragmatism in politics is nothing more than a means of cutting your own throat in the slowest and most excruciating manner.
- People who try to throw a fastball by him, especially with runners in scoring position, are cutting their own throat.
- When Dad asked how practice had gone, the kid said, ‘Fine,’ effectively cutting his own throat.
- He was told he'd be cutting his own throat when he brought Jasper Johns to the Fringe in 1964.
- There are lots of pithy quotes, from Dennis Hopper's ‘I had final cut and cut my own throat ‘, relating to his drug-fuelled The Last Movie, to John Milius's ‘Hollywood was a walled city.’
- You're cutting your own throat in the American League, if you do, because the league is going to gouge each other's eyes out with a heavy accent on big innings.
- But you have to wonder if they're cutting their own throat, losing out on the premium SMS's, and the data transfer costs.
- But if you must cut your marketing, don't cut your own throat.
- Remembering back, I would say that he cut his own throat on Pleasantville in very much the same way.
- Harvey's a guardsman, I was registered as a Democrat but totally nonpolitical, had made sure that it stayed out of my consulting practice because the first thing you do when you get that into a consulting practice is you cut your own throat.

force (or ram or shove) something down someone's throat

Force ideas or material on a person's attention by repeatedly putting them forward.
强迫某人接受；强行向某人灌输
the literature they forced down our throats in high school
Example sentencesExamples
- And it's not just ultra conservatives who want to shove their values down your throat.
- It gives me hope that there are people out here at SFU that won't shove their opinions down my throat.
- While Tanya Levina may describe fascism and communism as ‘systems of genius ‘, how will she feel when she confront a teacher or other authority figure who tries to shove their values down her throat?’
- I find it ironic that the 1947 version basically leaves religion out of it, but the 1994 version shoves it down your throat… and here I had hoped that the world was moving away from such concepts.
- But they wanted to shove an unfair deal down the union 's throat, using the support of the media and the mayor to force them to accept this.
- I fear a lot of policy has been being made by people who are simply uninterested in understanding, and who have all sorts of ulterior motives for trying to shove a policy down the world 's throat regardless of the realities of the situation.
- The question I have is why does the extreme Christian right doesn't believe in the First Amendment and feel that they have the right to shove their faith down my throat?
- It doesn't do you any harm to listen to what people of other faiths think and having an assembly once a week is hardly shoving it down your throat.
- You can't shove something down either side 's throat, and make that the lasting agreement.
- Indeed, the gleeful spectacle of one of the zombies shoving its hand deep into a victim's mouth graphically reflects the film's more general tendency of ramming ideas down the viewer 's throat.

grab (or take) someone by the throat

1Put one's hands around someone's throat, typically in an attempt to throttle them.
扼住某人的咽喉，掐住某人的脖子
Hugh grabbed him by the throat
Example sentencesExamples
- I attempted to grab him by the throat, but he just fled to the ladder and scrambled up, his ‘evil’ laughter ringing in his wake.
- Another publican reported an instance later on in the night where a barman was grabbed by the throat and held down while another person in the group filled drinks from the taps.
- My goodness but if he didn't grab Dot by the throat and start tee throttle her.
- On a flight to Japan, the former football hardman is said to have sworn at one woman passenger before grabbing her male companion by the throat.
- My heart aches for him, but my hands also itch to grab him by the throat and throttle him for a little bit for calling my best friend a whore.
- Another of the allegations against him aired recently in court, where he brought an unfair dismissal case, was that he grabbed his goalkeeper by the throat after a less than satisfactory performance and had to be torn off him.
- With the Laois players gaining a new stature amongst those who followed them they took Monaghan by the throat and threatened to throttle the life out of them.
- Prosecutor Frank Murphy said Telford grabbed his victim by the throat before throwing him off the bus following the altercation at the bus stop in Middleleaze Drive, West Swindon.
- He had been forced to discipline her for grabbing a fellow worker by the throat.
- Can you not just see the hurt look on her face when he gently takes her by the throat and throttles her to death?
- An unemployed father grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and threatened to kill her in a drunken argument, Selby magistrates heard.
- A 39-YEAR-old man grabbed his wife by the throat and head-butted her in the face as their three children watched, a court was told.
- Mr Hegarty had accused her of grabbing a co-worker by the throat - which Mrs Campbell vehemently denied - and told the man hearing her grievance that she was ‘greedy and money orientated’.
- Blackburn magistrates heard that Howard Wayne Eastham grabbed his aunt by the throat during the incident and she fell to the floor.
1. 1.1Seize control of something.
  Scotland took the game by the throat
  苏格兰队牢牢控制住了比赛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  West however had tasted defeat in the second semi final and literally took the game by the throat.
  In her essay ‘Believing in Literature,’ Dorothy Allison wrote that literature provides ‘a reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.’
  Not just managing Shakespeare but actually grabbing it by the throat and ringing every drop out of it and carrying it with such conviction.
  He had turned a match around, grabbed it by the throat and opened up a three-hole lead, only to throw it all away on the homeward nine.
  At critical times it was Turner who took the game by the throat and kept Pioneer in the fight.
  Gill punished every Louisburgh indiscretion with a point and Stephen Broderick took the game by the throat and fired over two great points, the last one looking like it was the winner.
  They proceeded to take the match by the throat with another two maximums to be in total control at 31-16 after eight races.
  Mr Hoare said: ‘In essence the plan is to grab the centre by the throat and give it a really good shake.’
  Every time the Canes were in danger of losing for the first time since September 2000, McGahee grabbed the game by the throat and squeezed.
  This time, he grabbed it by the throat, scoring 13 straight Minnesota points in the fourth quarter.
2. 1.2Attract someone's undivided attention.
  使心无旁顾，使聚精会神
  the film grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go
  这部电影紧紧吸引了你的注意力，让你从头到尾全神贯注。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's just hard to see the positive when she has this terrible habit of verbally grabbing you by the throat and banging you up against the nearest wall until your teeth rattle in your head.
  Some films grab you by the throat and don't relent, others work a more stealthy charm and get better and better as they go along.
  The opening of the movie grabs you by the throat.
  At present day, if a song doesn't grab the listener by the throat and slam their faces into the radio, they change the station.
  If you can listen to this album without it grabbing you by the throat and bitch-slapping you to attention, then check your hearing-aid, grandpa.
  Walsh writes approvingly, ‘The intense hatred for the neocons fairly jumps off the pages of this paleocon magazine, grabs you by the throat and demands that you listen…‘
  Your film better scream out at people, grab them by the throat and force them to watch it.
  But to show the horror of 9/11 in the background, that's just some advertising agency's attempt to grab people by the throat.
  From the opening scene in the Korova Milkbar to the distressing yet thoroughly satisfying finale, the film grabs the viewer by the throat and doesn't let go.
  A breathy intro, which leads very quickly into a shouty chorus which grabs you by the throat and says ‘Listen to me!’

Derivatives

throated

adjective

in combination a full-throated baritone
声音洪亮的男中音。

Origin

Old English throte, throtu, of Germanic origin; related to German Drossel. Compare with throttle.

Rhymes

afloat, bloat, boat, capote, coat, connote, cote, dote, emote, float, gloat, goat, groat, misquote, moat, mote, note, oat, outvote, promote, quote, rote, shoat, smote, stoat, Succoth, table d'hôte, Terre Haute, tote, vote, wrote

Definition of throat in US English:

throat

nounθroʊtTHrōt

1The passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal.
咽，（咽）喉
Example sentencesExamples
- That's when the nausea set in, and he quickly moved to cover his mouth in case his throat muscles failed to suppress the vomit.
- Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth.
- The trachea is situated immediately in front of the esophagus, the passageway that connects the throat with the stomach.
- Throat infections, sore throats, and upper respiratory tract infections were measured in episodes and days.
- By day four, the face flushed and the first painful lesions appeared - not on the surface of the skin, but in the mouth, throat and nasal passages.
- Bile was burning my mouth, my throat and chest were so tight, the nausea was overpowering.
- The spicy, and burning taste of bile and stomach acid burned my throat and mouth.
- The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear.
- When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose.
- When you have a cold, the tiny tube that connects your throat and middle ear is often blocked.
- The sound thus produced is amplified in the throat, mouth, nose and sinuses and streams out as an individual's voice.
- The hospital will use the money to buy a laser to treat abnormal lining in the throat which can lead to oesophageal cancer.
- Excess body weight contributes to obstructive sleep apnea, as does extra tissue at the back of your mouth and in your throat.
- The soft palate forms a curtain between the mouth and the throat, or pharynx, to the rear.
- Suddenly our conversation came to an abrupt halt, our breath caught in our throats and our mouths hung open with astonishment.
- So for example if he were to eat a raw apple, he would get itchiness in his mouth, his throat, may get a feeling of some swelling in his lips and his tongue.
- Every cough that racked his body grated on his throat and made his mouth feel like sandpaper.
- The Eustachian tube connects your middle ear to your throat (as shown on the illustration above).
- It causes the nerves at the back of the throat to signal the blood vessels to dilate - and fast.
- We suffered nosebleeds and blisters in our sinuses, throats, and mouths.
Synonyms
gullet, oesophagus
1. 1.1 The front part of a person's or animal's neck, behind which the esophagus, trachea, and blood vessels serving the head are situated.
  咽门，喉头；喉道；颈前部
  a gold pendant gleamed at her throat
  一个金链坠在她的颈前熠熠生辉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her palm was wrapped around the front of his throat, and he gagged once or twice.
  He smiled as he traced his fingernails down Ford's cheek, then dug them into the front of his throat.
  For the male, an orangish-light rufous color covered the area around the eye extending down the side of the face and the front of the throat.
  Quickly he placed the knife in front of her throat causing the girl to jump slightly.
  There as a long, white scar that ran from under his pointy chin, down the front of his throat, and to the middle of his collarbone.
  For boys, when the larynx grows bigger, it tilts to a different angle inside the neck and part of it sticks out at the front of the throat.
  At this point, pressure is applied to the suspect's neck between the throat and the carotid artery with the lower forearm.
  The strange mark seemed to go right across his throat, at the front, where the windpipe would be.
  His mouth trails down the column of my neck, my throat bare and arched up towards him in an attitude of complete submission and surrender.
  The great vein of the throat - the lower neck - the wrist - they are all suitable.
  Destine nodded, trailing her fingers across the front of his throat.
  Out of the corner of her eye, Mandy suddenly spotted one of her aides making frantic cutting motions across the throat while waving the front page of the Sun.
  I couldn't help but sigh as he softly kissed my neck, my throat.
  He currently has a Latvian scarf around his neck to keep his throat warm.
  A small moan escaped her pink lips as she tilted her head to allow him better access to her throat and neck.
  A silver necklace gleamed from around her throat, accenting her delicate neck.
  He allowed his hand to trail down her neck and across her throat.
  My other hand, placed at the front of my throat, fingered the warm tip of the blade.
  Suddenly a pair of hands grabbed her throat from in front of her and began to choke her.
  He said she grabbed the victim by her clothing around her neck and not her throat.
2. 1.2literary A voice of a person or a songbird.
  〈诗/文〉嗓音，嗓门；歌喉
  from a hundred throats came the cry “Vive l'Empereur!”
  成百个嗓门同时喊出“皇帝万岁！”
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was the water-on-shale sound of amusement hissed from a dozen throats.
  I screamed over and over until I could not feel my throat screaming anymore.
  Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell
  "Forever," came back the hushed whisper from a hundred throats.
  The word "papa" shouted by a thousand angry throats was carried up to the windows above.
3. 1.3 A thing compared to a throat, especially a narrow passage, entrance, or exit.
  咽喉状部分（尤指狭窄通道、进出管路）
  Example sentencesExamples
  They had decided to meet the Utuku in the narrow throat in the Papti Plain between the Lolopopo Swamp and the great bend of the Adkapo.
  What we have to imagine now is that a tiny piece of that skin is pinched off, forming a little blister connected to the Universe by a narrow throat - the black hole.
  The extra deep throat of the gauge enables materials to be measured up to 4 3/4 inches from the edge of a sheet.
4. 1.4Sailing The forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
  〔航海〕（肋材、锚臂或前后帆等的）弯曲处，凹口
  Example sentencesExamples
  A single halyard to the throat of the sail is an alternative to lashing the throat permanently to the masthead, and it facilitates reefing.
  The throat of the sail is lashed with a 4 mm lacing line to the shank of the bolt behind the gaff jaw.
  When the throat halliard is belayed, hoist the peak until deep, full wrinkles appear in the throat of the sail.

Phrases

be at each other's throats

(of people or organizations) quarrel or fight persistently.
（人，机构）激烈争吵，吵架；打架，斗殴
Example sentencesExamples
- Eighty years ago, T.E. Lawrence's genius was to weld a few Hejaz tribes into a biddable unit, but they were at each other's throats by the time they reached the gates of Damascus.
- There's an arrogant actor who thinks he's God, so everybody is at each other's throats so it's a matter of keeping everything under control.
- Unfortunately, none of the mutts got on and were at each other's throats like rabid pit bulls.
- Far from peaceably agreeing with one another, we were at each other's throats about the Schappelle Corby trial.
- Are we always going to be at each other's throats?
- When I first met Josh, we were at each other's throats for a long time; we would fight, we would hate each other.
- Within weeks, Lily and I - previously ensconced in an enviably stress-free marriage - were at each other's throats.
- But by now Stanley and Barker were at each other's throats.
- Barely a week goes by when the duo are not portrayed by a voracious media as being at each other's throats.
- They're always pictured in the history books as being at each other's throats…
Synonyms
argue, quarrel, row, have a row, bicker, squabble, have words, debate, disagree, have a disagreement, have an altercation, be at odds, bandy words

cut one's own throat

Bring about one's own downfall by one's actions.
Example sentencesExamples
- Remembering back, I would say that he cut his own throat on Pleasantville in very much the same way.
- You're cutting your own throat in the American League, if you do, because the league is going to gouge each other's eyes out with a heavy accent on big innings.
- There are lots of pithy quotes, from Dennis Hopper's ‘I had final cut and cut my own throat ‘, relating to his drug-fuelled The Last Movie, to John Milius's ‘Hollywood was a walled city.’
- Harvey's a guardsman, I was registered as a Democrat but totally nonpolitical, had made sure that it stayed out of my consulting practice because the first thing you do when you get that into a consulting practice is you cut your own throat.
- But you have to wonder if they're cutting their own throat, losing out on the premium SMS's, and the data transfer costs.
- When Dad asked how practice had gone, the kid said, ‘Fine,’ effectively cutting his own throat.
- But if you must cut your marketing, don't cut your own throat.
- Pragmatism in politics is nothing more than a means of cutting your own throat in the slowest and most excruciating manner.
- He was told he'd be cutting his own throat when he brought Jasper Johns to the Fringe in 1964.
- People who try to throw a fastball by him, especially with runners in scoring position, are cutting their own throat.

force (or ram or shove) something down someone's throat

Force ideas or material on a person's attention by repeatedly putting them forward.
强迫某人接受；强行向某人灌输
Example sentencesExamples
- It doesn't do you any harm to listen to what people of other faiths think and having an assembly once a week is hardly shoving it down your throat.
- But they wanted to shove an unfair deal down the union 's throat, using the support of the media and the mayor to force them to accept this.
- While Tanya Levina may describe fascism and communism as ‘systems of genius ‘, how will she feel when she confront a teacher or other authority figure who tries to shove their values down her throat?’
- It gives me hope that there are people out here at SFU that won't shove their opinions down my throat.
- I fear a lot of policy has been being made by people who are simply uninterested in understanding, and who have all sorts of ulterior motives for trying to shove a policy down the world 's throat regardless of the realities of the situation.
- I find it ironic that the 1947 version basically leaves religion out of it, but the 1994 version shoves it down your throat… and here I had hoped that the world was moving away from such concepts.
- You can't shove something down either side 's throat, and make that the lasting agreement.
- The question I have is why does the extreme Christian right doesn't believe in the First Amendment and feel that they have the right to shove their faith down my throat?
- Indeed, the gleeful spectacle of one of the zombies shoving its hand deep into a victim's mouth graphically reflects the film's more general tendency of ramming ideas down the viewer 's throat.
- And it's not just ultra conservatives who want to shove their values down your throat.

grab (or take) someone by the throat

1Put one's hands around someone's throat, typically in an attempt to throttle them.
扼住某人的咽喉，掐住某人的脖子
Example sentencesExamples
- Prosecutor Frank Murphy said Telford grabbed his victim by the throat before throwing him off the bus following the altercation at the bus stop in Middleleaze Drive, West Swindon.
- Another publican reported an instance later on in the night where a barman was grabbed by the throat and held down while another person in the group filled drinks from the taps.
- My goodness but if he didn't grab Dot by the throat and start tee throttle her.
- On a flight to Japan, the former football hardman is said to have sworn at one woman passenger before grabbing her male companion by the throat.
- A 39-YEAR-old man grabbed his wife by the throat and head-butted her in the face as their three children watched, a court was told.
- An unemployed father grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and threatened to kill her in a drunken argument, Selby magistrates heard.
- Blackburn magistrates heard that Howard Wayne Eastham grabbed his aunt by the throat during the incident and she fell to the floor.
- Can you not just see the hurt look on her face when he gently takes her by the throat and throttles her to death?
- I attempted to grab him by the throat, but he just fled to the ladder and scrambled up, his ‘evil’ laughter ringing in his wake.
- With the Laois players gaining a new stature amongst those who followed them they took Monaghan by the throat and threatened to throttle the life out of them.
- Mr Hegarty had accused her of grabbing a co-worker by the throat - which Mrs Campbell vehemently denied - and told the man hearing her grievance that she was ‘greedy and money orientated’.
- My heart aches for him, but my hands also itch to grab him by the throat and throttle him for a little bit for calling my best friend a whore.
- He had been forced to discipline her for grabbing a fellow worker by the throat.
- Another of the allegations against him aired recently in court, where he brought an unfair dismissal case, was that he grabbed his goalkeeper by the throat after a less than satisfactory performance and had to be torn off him.
1. 1.1Seize control of something.
  in the second half, the Huskies took the game by the throat
  Example sentencesExamples
  At critical times it was Turner who took the game by the throat and kept Pioneer in the fight.
  They proceeded to take the match by the throat with another two maximums to be in total control at 31-16 after eight races.
  This time, he grabbed it by the throat, scoring 13 straight Minnesota points in the fourth quarter.
  In her essay ‘Believing in Literature,’ Dorothy Allison wrote that literature provides ‘a reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.’
  Gill punished every Louisburgh indiscretion with a point and Stephen Broderick took the game by the throat and fired over two great points, the last one looking like it was the winner.
  Mr Hoare said: ‘In essence the plan is to grab the centre by the throat and give it a really good shake.’
  Not just managing Shakespeare but actually grabbing it by the throat and ringing every drop out of it and carrying it with such conviction.
  Every time the Canes were in danger of losing for the first time since September 2000, McGahee grabbed the game by the throat and squeezed.
  He had turned a match around, grabbed it by the throat and opened up a three-hole lead, only to throw it all away on the homeward nine.
  West however had tasted defeat in the second semi final and literally took the game by the throat.
2. 1.2Attract someone's undivided attention.
  使心无旁顾，使聚精会神
  the movie grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go
  这部电影紧紧吸引了你的注意力，让你从头到尾全神贯注。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Your film better scream out at people, grab them by the throat and force them to watch it.
  At present day, if a song doesn't grab the listener by the throat and slam their faces into the radio, they change the station.
  A breathy intro, which leads very quickly into a shouty chorus which grabs you by the throat and says ‘Listen to me!’
  From the opening scene in the Korova Milkbar to the distressing yet thoroughly satisfying finale, the film grabs the viewer by the throat and doesn't let go.
  The opening of the movie grabs you by the throat.
  Some films grab you by the throat and don't relent, others work a more stealthy charm and get better and better as they go along.
  It's just hard to see the positive when she has this terrible habit of verbally grabbing you by the throat and banging you up against the nearest wall until your teeth rattle in your head.
  But to show the horror of 9/11 in the background, that's just some advertising agency's attempt to grab people by the throat.
  If you can listen to this album without it grabbing you by the throat and bitch-slapping you to attention, then check your hearing-aid, grandpa.
  Walsh writes approvingly, ‘The intense hatred for the neocons fairly jumps off the pages of this paleocon magazine, grabs you by the throat and demands that you listen…‘

Origin

Old English throte, throtu, of Germanic origin; related to German Drossel. Compare with throttle.

词汇	throat
释义	Definition of throat in English: throat noun θrəʊtθroʊt 1The passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal. 咽，（咽）喉 her throat was parched with thirst he's pouring beer down his throat Example sentencesExamples Every cough that racked his body grated on his throat and made his mouth feel like sandpaper. Excess body weight contributes to obstructive sleep apnea, as does extra tissue at the back of your mouth and in your throat. Throat infections, sore throats, and upper respiratory tract infections were measured in episodes and days. Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth. We suffered nosebleeds and blisters in our sinuses, throats, and mouths. Bile was burning my mouth, my throat and chest were so tight, the nausea was overpowering. The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear. When you have a cold, the tiny tube that connects your throat and middle ear is often blocked. The trachea is situated immediately in front of the esophagus, the passageway that connects the throat with the stomach. The Eustachian tube connects your middle ear to your throat (as shown on the illustration above). That's when the nausea set in, and he quickly moved to cover his mouth in case his throat muscles failed to suppress the vomit. By day four, the face flushed and the first painful lesions appeared - not on the surface of the skin, but in the mouth, throat and nasal passages. It causes the nerves at the back of the throat to signal the blood vessels to dilate - and fast. So for example if he were to eat a raw apple, he would get itchiness in his mouth, his throat, may get a feeling of some swelling in his lips and his tongue. The soft palate forms a curtain between the mouth and the throat, or pharynx, to the rear. The sound thus produced is amplified in the throat, mouth, nose and sinuses and streams out as an individual's voice. Suddenly our conversation came to an abrupt halt, our breath caught in our throats and our mouths hung open with astonishment. The spicy, and burning taste of bile and stomach acid burned my throat and mouth. When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose. The hospital will use the money to buy a laser to treat abnormal lining in the throat which can lead to oesophageal cancer. Synonyms gullet, oesophagus windpipe, trachea crop, craw, maw neck technical pharynx, oropharynx, fauces, gorget informal, dated the red lane archaic throttle, gorge, gula 1.1 The front part of a person's or animal's neck. a gold pendant gleamed at her throat 一个金链坠在她的颈前熠熠生辉。 Example sentencesExamples He allowed his hand to trail down her neck and across her throat. The great vein of the throat - the lower neck - the wrist - they are all suitable. There as a long, white scar that ran from under his pointy chin, down the front of his throat, and to the middle of his collarbone. Quickly he placed the knife in front of her throat causing the girl to jump slightly. My other hand, placed at the front of my throat, fingered the warm tip of the blade. For boys, when the larynx grows bigger, it tilts to a different angle inside the neck and part of it sticks out at the front of the throat. For the male, an orangish-light rufous color covered the area around the eye extending down the side of the face and the front of the throat. His mouth trails down the column of my neck, my throat bare and arched up towards him in an attitude of complete submission and surrender. He said she grabbed the victim by her clothing around her neck and not her throat. A silver necklace gleamed from around her throat, accenting her delicate neck. At this point, pressure is applied to the suspect's neck between the throat and the carotid artery with the lower forearm. Her palm was wrapped around the front of his throat, and he gagged once or twice. Out of the corner of her eye, Mandy suddenly spotted one of her aides making frantic cutting motions across the throat while waving the front page of the Sun. He currently has a Latvian scarf around his neck to keep his throat warm. Destine nodded, trailing her fingers across the front of his throat. The strange mark seemed to go right across his throat, at the front, where the windpipe would be. Suddenly a pair of hands grabbed her throat from in front of her and began to choke her. I couldn't help but sigh as he softly kissed my neck, my throat. A small moan escaped her pink lips as she tilted her head to allow him better access to her throat and neck. He smiled as he traced his fingernails down Ford's cheek, then dug them into the front of his throat. 1.2literary A voice of a person or a songbird. 〈诗/文〉嗓音，嗓门；歌喉 from a hundred throats came the cry ‘Vive l'Empereur!’ 成百个嗓门同时喊出“皇帝万岁！” Example sentencesExamples The word "papa" shouted by a thousand angry throats was carried up to the windows above. There was the water-on-shale sound of amusement hissed from a dozen throats. "Forever," came back the hushed whisper from a hundred throats. I screamed over and over until I could not feel my throat screaming anymore. Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell 1.3 A thing compared to a throat, especially a narrow passage, entrance, or exit. 咽喉状部分（尤指狭窄通道、进出管路） Example sentencesExamples The extra deep throat of the gauge enables materials to be measured up to 4 3/4 inches from the edge of a sheet. What we have to imagine now is that a tiny piece of that skin is pinched off, forming a little blister connected to the Universe by a narrow throat - the black hole. They had decided to meet the Utuku in the narrow throat in the Papti Plain between the Lolopopo Swamp and the great bend of the Adkapo. 1.4Sailing The forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail. 〔航海〕（肋材、锚臂或前后帆等的）弯曲处，凹口 Example sentencesExamples The throat of the sail is lashed with a 4 mm lacing line to the shank of the bolt behind the gaff jaw. When the throat halliard is belayed, hoist the peak until deep, full wrinkles appear in the throat of the sail. A single halyard to the throat of the sail is an alternative to lashing the throat permanently to the masthead, and it facilitates reefing. Phrases be at each other's throats (of people or organizations) quarrel or fight persistently. （人，机构）激烈争吵，吵架；打架，斗殴 they were always at each other's throats Example sentencesExamples Eighty years ago, T.E. Lawrence's genius was to weld a few Hejaz tribes into a biddable unit, but they were at each other's throats by the time they reached the gates of Damascus. Are we always going to be at each other's throats? They're always pictured in the history books as being at each other's throats… But by now Stanley and Barker were at each other's throats. Far from peaceably agreeing with one another, we were at each other's throats about the Schappelle Corby trial. Barely a week goes by when the duo are not portrayed by a voracious media as being at each other's throats. When I first met Josh, we were at each other's throats for a long time; we would fight, we would hate each other. Unfortunately, none of the mutts got on and were at each other's throats like rabid pit bulls. Within weeks, Lily and I - previously ensconced in an enviably stress-free marriage - were at each other's throats. There's an arrogant actor who thinks he's God, so everybody is at each other's throats so it's a matter of keeping everything under control. Synonyms argue, quarrel, row, have a row, bicker, squabble, have words, debate, disagree, have a disagreement, have an altercation, be at odds, bandy words cut one's own throat Bring about one's own downfall by one's actions. Example sentencesExamples Pragmatism in politics is nothing more than a means of cutting your own throat in the slowest and most excruciating manner. People who try to throw a fastball by him, especially with runners in scoring position, are cutting their own throat. When Dad asked how practice had gone, the kid said, ‘Fine,’ effectively cutting his own throat. He was told he'd be cutting his own throat when he brought Jasper Johns to the Fringe in 1964. There are lots of pithy quotes, from Dennis Hopper's ‘I had final cut and cut my own throat ‘, relating to his drug-fuelled The Last Movie, to John Milius's ‘Hollywood was a walled city.’ You're cutting your own throat in the American League, if you do, because the league is going to gouge each other's eyes out with a heavy accent on big innings. But you have to wonder if they're cutting their own throat, losing out on the premium SMS's, and the data transfer costs. But if you must cut your marketing, don't cut your own throat. Remembering back, I would say that he cut his own throat on Pleasantville in very much the same way. Harvey's a guardsman, I was registered as a Democrat but totally nonpolitical, had made sure that it stayed out of my consulting practice because the first thing you do when you get that into a consulting practice is you cut your own throat. force (or ram or shove) something down someone's throat Force ideas or material on a person's attention by repeatedly putting them forward. 强迫某人接受；强行向某人灌输 the literature they forced down our throats in high school Example sentencesExamples And it's not just ultra conservatives who want to shove their values down your throat. It gives me hope that there are people out here at SFU that won't shove their opinions down my throat. While Tanya Levina may describe fascism and communism as ‘systems of genius ‘, how will she feel when she confront a teacher or other authority figure who tries to shove their values down her throat?’ I find it ironic that the 1947 version basically leaves religion out of it, but the 1994 version shoves it down your throat… and here I had hoped that the world was moving away from such concepts. But they wanted to shove an unfair deal down the union 's throat, using the support of the media and the mayor to force them to accept this. I fear a lot of policy has been being made by people who are simply uninterested in understanding, and who have all sorts of ulterior motives for trying to shove a policy down the world 's throat regardless of the realities of the situation. The question I have is why does the extreme Christian right doesn't believe in the First Amendment and feel that they have the right to shove their faith down my throat? It doesn't do you any harm to listen to what people of other faiths think and having an assembly once a week is hardly shoving it down your throat. You can't shove something down either side 's throat, and make that the lasting agreement. Indeed, the gleeful spectacle of one of the zombies shoving its hand deep into a victim's mouth graphically reflects the film's more general tendency of ramming ideas down the viewer 's throat. grab (or take) someone by the throat 1Put one's hands around someone's throat, typically in an attempt to throttle them. 扼住某人的咽喉，掐住某人的脖子 Hugh grabbed him by the throat Example sentencesExamples I attempted to grab him by the throat, but he just fled to the ladder and scrambled up, his ‘evil’ laughter ringing in his wake. Another publican reported an instance later on in the night where a barman was grabbed by the throat and held down while another person in the group filled drinks from the taps. My goodness but if he didn't grab Dot by the throat and start tee throttle her. On a flight to Japan, the former football hardman is said to have sworn at one woman passenger before grabbing her male companion by the throat. My heart aches for him, but my hands also itch to grab him by the throat and throttle him for a little bit for calling my best friend a whore. Another of the allegations against him aired recently in court, where he brought an unfair dismissal case, was that he grabbed his goalkeeper by the throat after a less than satisfactory performance and had to be torn off him. With the Laois players gaining a new stature amongst those who followed them they took Monaghan by the throat and threatened to throttle the life out of them. Prosecutor Frank Murphy said Telford grabbed his victim by the throat before throwing him off the bus following the altercation at the bus stop in Middleleaze Drive, West Swindon. He had been forced to discipline her for grabbing a fellow worker by the throat. Can you not just see the hurt look on her face when he gently takes her by the throat and throttles her to death? An unemployed father grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and threatened to kill her in a drunken argument, Selby magistrates heard. A 39-YEAR-old man grabbed his wife by the throat and head-butted her in the face as their three children watched, a court was told. Mr Hegarty had accused her of grabbing a co-worker by the throat - which Mrs Campbell vehemently denied - and told the man hearing her grievance that she was ‘greedy and money orientated’. Blackburn magistrates heard that Howard Wayne Eastham grabbed his aunt by the throat during the incident and she fell to the floor. 1.1Seize control of something. Scotland took the game by the throat 苏格兰队牢牢控制住了比赛。 Example sentencesExamples West however had tasted defeat in the second semi final and literally took the game by the throat. In her essay ‘Believing in Literature,’ Dorothy Allison wrote that literature provides ‘a reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.’ Not just managing Shakespeare but actually grabbing it by the throat and ringing every drop out of it and carrying it with such conviction. He had turned a match around, grabbed it by the throat and opened up a three-hole lead, only to throw it all away on the homeward nine. At critical times it was Turner who took the game by the throat and kept Pioneer in the fight. Gill punished every Louisburgh indiscretion with a point and Stephen Broderick took the game by the throat and fired over two great points, the last one looking like it was the winner. They proceeded to take the match by the throat with another two maximums to be in total control at 31-16 after eight races. Mr Hoare said: ‘In essence the plan is to grab the centre by the throat and give it a really good shake.’ Every time the Canes were in danger of losing for the first time since September 2000, McGahee grabbed the game by the throat and squeezed. This time, he grabbed it by the throat, scoring 13 straight Minnesota points in the fourth quarter. 1.2Attract someone's undivided attention. 使心无旁顾，使聚精会神 the film grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go 这部电影紧紧吸引了你的注意力，让你从头到尾全神贯注。 Example sentencesExamples It's just hard to see the positive when she has this terrible habit of verbally grabbing you by the throat and banging you up against the nearest wall until your teeth rattle in your head. Some films grab you by the throat and don't relent, others work a more stealthy charm and get better and better as they go along. The opening of the movie grabs you by the throat. At present day, if a song doesn't grab the listener by the throat and slam their faces into the radio, they change the station. If you can listen to this album without it grabbing you by the throat and bitch-slapping you to attention, then check your hearing-aid, grandpa. Walsh writes approvingly, ‘The intense hatred for the neocons fairly jumps off the pages of this paleocon magazine, grabs you by the throat and demands that you listen…‘ Your film better scream out at people, grab them by the throat and force them to watch it. But to show the horror of 9/11 in the background, that's just some advertising agency's attempt to grab people by the throat. From the opening scene in the Korova Milkbar to the distressing yet thoroughly satisfying finale, the film grabs the viewer by the throat and doesn't let go. A breathy intro, which leads very quickly into a shouty chorus which grabs you by the throat and says ‘Listen to me!’ Derivatives throated adjective in combination a full-throated baritone 声音洪亮的男中音。 Origin Old English throte, throtu, of Germanic origin; related to German Drossel. Compare with throttle. Rhymes afloat, bloat, boat, capote, coat, connote, cote, dote, emote, float, gloat, goat, groat, misquote, moat, mote, note, oat, outvote, promote, quote, rote, shoat, smote, stoat, Succoth, table d'hôte, Terre Haute, tote, vote, wrote noun.1 phr. Definition of throat in US English: throat nounθroʊtTHrōt 1The passage which leads from the back of the mouth of a person or animal. 咽，（咽）喉 Example sentencesExamples That's when the nausea set in, and he quickly moved to cover his mouth in case his throat muscles failed to suppress the vomit. Heartburn is a burning feeling in the lower chest, along with a sour or bitter taste in the throat and mouth. The trachea is situated immediately in front of the esophagus, the passageway that connects the throat with the stomach. Throat infections, sore throats, and upper respiratory tract infections were measured in episodes and days. By day four, the face flushed and the first painful lesions appeared - not on the surface of the skin, but in the mouth, throat and nasal passages. Bile was burning my mouth, my throat and chest were so tight, the nausea was overpowering. The spicy, and burning taste of bile and stomach acid burned my throat and mouth. The infection spreads from the nose or throat through the Eustachian tube, a passage between the throat and the middle ear. When we swallow, the soft palate closes off the nasal passages from the throat to prevent food from entering the nose. When you have a cold, the tiny tube that connects your throat and middle ear is often blocked. The sound thus produced is amplified in the throat, mouth, nose and sinuses and streams out as an individual's voice. The hospital will use the money to buy a laser to treat abnormal lining in the throat which can lead to oesophageal cancer. Excess body weight contributes to obstructive sleep apnea, as does extra tissue at the back of your mouth and in your throat. The soft palate forms a curtain between the mouth and the throat, or pharynx, to the rear. Suddenly our conversation came to an abrupt halt, our breath caught in our throats and our mouths hung open with astonishment. So for example if he were to eat a raw apple, he would get itchiness in his mouth, his throat, may get a feeling of some swelling in his lips and his tongue. Every cough that racked his body grated on his throat and made his mouth feel like sandpaper. The Eustachian tube connects your middle ear to your throat (as shown on the illustration above). It causes the nerves at the back of the throat to signal the blood vessels to dilate - and fast. We suffered nosebleeds and blisters in our sinuses, throats, and mouths. Synonyms gullet, oesophagus 1.1 The front part of a person's or animal's neck, behind which the esophagus, trachea, and blood vessels serving the head are situated. 咽门，喉头；喉道；颈前部 a gold pendant gleamed at her throat 一个金链坠在她的颈前熠熠生辉。 Example sentencesExamples Her palm was wrapped around the front of his throat, and he gagged once or twice. He smiled as he traced his fingernails down Ford's cheek, then dug them into the front of his throat. For the male, an orangish-light rufous color covered the area around the eye extending down the side of the face and the front of the throat. Quickly he placed the knife in front of her throat causing the girl to jump slightly. There as a long, white scar that ran from under his pointy chin, down the front of his throat, and to the middle of his collarbone. For boys, when the larynx grows bigger, it tilts to a different angle inside the neck and part of it sticks out at the front of the throat. At this point, pressure is applied to the suspect's neck between the throat and the carotid artery with the lower forearm. The strange mark seemed to go right across his throat, at the front, where the windpipe would be. His mouth trails down the column of my neck, my throat bare and arched up towards him in an attitude of complete submission and surrender. The great vein of the throat - the lower neck - the wrist - they are all suitable. Destine nodded, trailing her fingers across the front of his throat. Out of the corner of her eye, Mandy suddenly spotted one of her aides making frantic cutting motions across the throat while waving the front page of the Sun. I couldn't help but sigh as he softly kissed my neck, my throat. He currently has a Latvian scarf around his neck to keep his throat warm. A small moan escaped her pink lips as she tilted her head to allow him better access to her throat and neck. A silver necklace gleamed from around her throat, accenting her delicate neck. He allowed his hand to trail down her neck and across her throat. My other hand, placed at the front of my throat, fingered the warm tip of the blade. Suddenly a pair of hands grabbed her throat from in front of her and began to choke her. He said she grabbed the victim by her clothing around her neck and not her throat. 1.2literary A voice of a person or a songbird. 〈诗/文〉嗓音，嗓门；歌喉 from a hundred throats came the cry “Vive l'Empereur!” 成百个嗓门同时喊出“皇帝万岁！” Example sentencesExamples There was the water-on-shale sound of amusement hissed from a dozen throats. I screamed over and over until I could not feel my throat screaming anymore. Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell "Forever," came back the hushed whisper from a hundred throats. The word "papa" shouted by a thousand angry throats was carried up to the windows above. 1.3 A thing compared to a throat, especially a narrow passage, entrance, or exit. 咽喉状部分（尤指狭窄通道、进出管路） Example sentencesExamples They had decided to meet the Utuku in the narrow throat in the Papti Plain between the Lolopopo Swamp and the great bend of the Adkapo. What we have to imagine now is that a tiny piece of that skin is pinched off, forming a little blister connected to the Universe by a narrow throat - the black hole. The extra deep throat of the gauge enables materials to be measured up to 4 3/4 inches from the edge of a sheet. 1.4Sailing The forward upper corner of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail. 〔航海〕（肋材、锚臂或前后帆等的）弯曲处，凹口 Example sentencesExamples A single halyard to the throat of the sail is an alternative to lashing the throat permanently to the masthead, and it facilitates reefing. The throat of the sail is lashed with a 4 mm lacing line to the shank of the bolt behind the gaff jaw. When the throat halliard is belayed, hoist the peak until deep, full wrinkles appear in the throat of the sail. Phrases be at each other's throats (of people or organizations) quarrel or fight persistently. （人，机构）激烈争吵，吵架；打架，斗殴 Example sentencesExamples Eighty years ago, T.E. Lawrence's genius was to weld a few Hejaz tribes into a biddable unit, but they were at each other's throats by the time they reached the gates of Damascus. There's an arrogant actor who thinks he's God, so everybody is at each other's throats so it's a matter of keeping everything under control. Unfortunately, none of the mutts got on and were at each other's throats like rabid pit bulls. Far from peaceably agreeing with one another, we were at each other's throats about the Schappelle Corby trial. Are we always going to be at each other's throats? When I first met Josh, we were at each other's throats for a long time; we would fight, we would hate each other. Within weeks, Lily and I - previously ensconced in an enviably stress-free marriage - were at each other's throats. But by now Stanley and Barker were at each other's throats. Barely a week goes by when the duo are not portrayed by a voracious media as being at each other's throats. They're always pictured in the history books as being at each other's throats… Synonyms argue, quarrel, row, have a row, bicker, squabble, have words, debate, disagree, have a disagreement, have an altercation, be at odds, bandy words cut one's own throat Bring about one's own downfall by one's actions. Example sentencesExamples Remembering back, I would say that he cut his own throat on Pleasantville in very much the same way. You're cutting your own throat in the American League, if you do, because the league is going to gouge each other's eyes out with a heavy accent on big innings. There are lots of pithy quotes, from Dennis Hopper's ‘I had final cut and cut my own throat ‘, relating to his drug-fuelled The Last Movie, to John Milius's ‘Hollywood was a walled city.’ Harvey's a guardsman, I was registered as a Democrat but totally nonpolitical, had made sure that it stayed out of my consulting practice because the first thing you do when you get that into a consulting practice is you cut your own throat. But you have to wonder if they're cutting their own throat, losing out on the premium SMS's, and the data transfer costs. When Dad asked how practice had gone, the kid said, ‘Fine,’ effectively cutting his own throat. But if you must cut your marketing, don't cut your own throat. Pragmatism in politics is nothing more than a means of cutting your own throat in the slowest and most excruciating manner. He was told he'd be cutting his own throat when he brought Jasper Johns to the Fringe in 1964. People who try to throw a fastball by him, especially with runners in scoring position, are cutting their own throat. force (or ram or shove) something down someone's throat Force ideas or material on a person's attention by repeatedly putting them forward. 强迫某人接受；强行向某人灌输 Example sentencesExamples It doesn't do you any harm to listen to what people of other faiths think and having an assembly once a week is hardly shoving it down your throat. But they wanted to shove an unfair deal down the union 's throat, using the support of the media and the mayor to force them to accept this. While Tanya Levina may describe fascism and communism as ‘systems of genius ‘, how will she feel when she confront a teacher or other authority figure who tries to shove their values down her throat?’ It gives me hope that there are people out here at SFU that won't shove their opinions down my throat. I fear a lot of policy has been being made by people who are simply uninterested in understanding, and who have all sorts of ulterior motives for trying to shove a policy down the world 's throat regardless of the realities of the situation. I find it ironic that the 1947 version basically leaves religion out of it, but the 1994 version shoves it down your throat… and here I had hoped that the world was moving away from such concepts. You can't shove something down either side 's throat, and make that the lasting agreement. The question I have is why does the extreme Christian right doesn't believe in the First Amendment and feel that they have the right to shove their faith down my throat? Indeed, the gleeful spectacle of one of the zombies shoving its hand deep into a victim's mouth graphically reflects the film's more general tendency of ramming ideas down the viewer 's throat. And it's not just ultra conservatives who want to shove their values down your throat. grab (or take) someone by the throat 1Put one's hands around someone's throat, typically in an attempt to throttle them. 扼住某人的咽喉，掐住某人的脖子 Example sentencesExamples Prosecutor Frank Murphy said Telford grabbed his victim by the throat before throwing him off the bus following the altercation at the bus stop in Middleleaze Drive, West Swindon. Another publican reported an instance later on in the night where a barman was grabbed by the throat and held down while another person in the group filled drinks from the taps. My goodness but if he didn't grab Dot by the throat and start tee throttle her. On a flight to Japan, the former football hardman is said to have sworn at one woman passenger before grabbing her male companion by the throat. A 39-YEAR-old man grabbed his wife by the throat and head-butted her in the face as their three children watched, a court was told. An unemployed father grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and threatened to kill her in a drunken argument, Selby magistrates heard. Blackburn magistrates heard that Howard Wayne Eastham grabbed his aunt by the throat during the incident and she fell to the floor. Can you not just see the hurt look on her face when he gently takes her by the throat and throttles her to death? I attempted to grab him by the throat, but he just fled to the ladder and scrambled up, his ‘evil’ laughter ringing in his wake. With the Laois players gaining a new stature amongst those who followed them they took Monaghan by the throat and threatened to throttle the life out of them. Mr Hegarty had accused her of grabbing a co-worker by the throat - which Mrs Campbell vehemently denied - and told the man hearing her grievance that she was ‘greedy and money orientated’. My heart aches for him, but my hands also itch to grab him by the throat and throttle him for a little bit for calling my best friend a whore. He had been forced to discipline her for grabbing a fellow worker by the throat. Another of the allegations against him aired recently in court, where he brought an unfair dismissal case, was that he grabbed his goalkeeper by the throat after a less than satisfactory performance and had to be torn off him. 1.1Seize control of something. in the second half, the Huskies took the game by the throat Example sentencesExamples At critical times it was Turner who took the game by the throat and kept Pioneer in the fight. They proceeded to take the match by the throat with another two maximums to be in total control at 31-16 after eight races. This time, he grabbed it by the throat, scoring 13 straight Minnesota points in the fourth quarter. In her essay ‘Believing in Literature,’ Dorothy Allison wrote that literature provides ‘a reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.’ Gill punished every Louisburgh indiscretion with a point and Stephen Broderick took the game by the throat and fired over two great points, the last one looking like it was the winner. Mr Hoare said: ‘In essence the plan is to grab the centre by the throat and give it a really good shake.’ Not just managing Shakespeare but actually grabbing it by the throat and ringing every drop out of it and carrying it with such conviction. Every time the Canes were in danger of losing for the first time since September 2000, McGahee grabbed the game by the throat and squeezed. He had turned a match around, grabbed it by the throat and opened up a three-hole lead, only to throw it all away on the homeward nine. West however had tasted defeat in the second semi final and literally took the game by the throat. 1.2Attract someone's undivided attention. 使心无旁顾，使聚精会神 the movie grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go 这部电影紧紧吸引了你的注意力，让你从头到尾全神贯注。 Example sentencesExamples Your film better scream out at people, grab them by the throat and force them to watch it. At present day, if a song doesn't grab the listener by the throat and slam their faces into the radio, they change the station. A breathy intro, which leads very quickly into a shouty chorus which grabs you by the throat and says ‘Listen to me!’ From the opening scene in the Korova Milkbar to the distressing yet thoroughly satisfying finale, the film grabs the viewer by the throat and doesn't let go. The opening of the movie grabs you by the throat. Some films grab you by the throat and don't relent, others work a more stealthy charm and get better and better as they go along. It's just hard to see the positive when she has this terrible habit of verbally grabbing you by the throat and banging you up against the nearest wall until your teeth rattle in your head. But to show the horror of 9/11 in the background, that's just some advertising agency's attempt to grab people by the throat. If you can listen to this album without it grabbing you by the throat and bitch-slapping you to attention, then check your hearing-aid, grandpa. Walsh writes approvingly, ‘The intense hatred for the neocons fairly jumps off the pages of this paleocon magazine, grabs you by the throat and demands that you listen…‘ Origin Old English throte, throtu, of Germanic origin; related to German Drossel. Compare with throttle. noun.1 phr.
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