He chokes on a piece of bread.
他被一块面包卡住了。
"This is amazing," he chokes, but I know that he's in serious discomfort.
“这真过瘾，”他仍呼吸不畅地说，但我知道他一定很不舒服。
In (4), the writer knows more or less what he wants to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes him like tea leaves blocking a sink.
例(4)，作者多少知道自己想说什么，但是陈腐短语的堆砌就象茶叶堵了水槽一样噎着他。
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