When you develop a throat infection or catch a cold the glands in the neck swell up.

当你咽喉发炎或感冒时, 脖子上的腺体会肿起来。

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I twist my neck, trying to catch her expression, but I can see only half of it: flutter of eye, curve of lip, and slice of cheek.

我扭转脖子，想看看她的表情，可也只能看到一半儿：眼睛的煽动、嘴唇的弧度，面颊的一片儿。

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Crane's neck is long enough to catch fish and insect, but to be a woodpecker, crane is no good.

鹤的脖子特长在河边吃鱼、吃小虫子很好，可是要当啄木鸟就不灵了。

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Contrast that with the lot of Mr Santer's successor, who will have parliament breathing down his neck, the central bank refusing to catch his eye, and the foreign-policy figure treading all over his toes.

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Fastening the chain back around her neck, trying to tell by feel whether the catch had closed, she thought of another loophole.

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Jason's father Mort Trachtenburg often comes up from New Jersey to catch the shows, a proud father and grandfather with a camera hanging from his neck.

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