The air, the people, had seemed too thick, too apt to choke him.

这儿的空气，这儿的人，似乎都太调密了，太容易把他压得喘不过气。

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He had a terrifying nightmare in which his aunt was trying to choke him.

有一天晚上，他甚至梦见婶婶想要勒死他，真是太可怕了。

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The brandy made him choke, but it restored his nerve.

白兰地呛到他了，但恢复了他的勇气。

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When he messily switched teams, gave up his Alpha Dog status to teammate Dwyane Wade, and still failed to win a championship in his first year, the naysayers seized on every opportunity to call him a choke artist, a waste of talent, a loser.

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It taught him that all overconfident leaders choke in the same way.

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