chokehold
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈtʃəʊk.həʊld]
- 美式音标 [ˈtʃoʊk.hoʊld]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.掐脖子；压制
同根派生
英汉例句
- They find Jigger and Snooze trying to calm Brooks, who has Heywood in a chokehold and a knife to his throat.
他们看到齐格尔与斯诺正在劝布鲁克斯冷静，他一个胳膊夹着海沃德的脖子，一只手拿着刀子对着海沃德的颈部。 - Israel's system of proportional voting has given the settlers and zealots a chokehold over politics.
以色列的比例投票制使得定居者和狂热者在政治上打起割喉战。 - Jack puts a chokehold on Rick when he comes in the shed, but Teri and Kim beg him to let go.
里克走进了小木屋，杰克一把捏住他的喉咙，但是泰瑞和金姆恳求他放手，不要捏死了里克。 - Yet as the importance of the PC operating system declines, it shifts the potential chokehold of computing to the software on the network servers.
当然，随着个人电脑操作系统的重要性下降，软件业抛弃PC转向网络服务器的可能性越来越大。 - While an actual alliance with OPEC seems far-fetched, concerns already run high in the U.S. and Europe that Moscow is trying to increase its chokehold over Europe's energy needs.
虽然同欧佩克达成正式协议远非一蹴而就之事，可美国和欧洲已十分担忧莫斯科会在能源需求问题上进一步向欧洲施压。
英英字典
- a way of holding someone with your arm tightly around their neck so that they cannot breathe easily