While one is choking and spluttering over the spelling and grammar, the inside remains starved, and when at length the taste is felt, the appetite has vanished.

当一个人在词语拼写和文法结构上干噎着，费力得唾沫星子四处飞溅时，肚子里却仍旧感觉饥肠辘辘。待到最后感觉稍有滋味时，胃口却没有了。

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In America, mortgage rates have been rising over the past two months, choking off the refinancing boom that has propped up consumer spending.

ECONOMIST: Mortgage markets

One should also note that 2010 saw a spike in mortality over the summer months when most of central Russia was choking on peat smoke, so some of the mortality improvement in 2011 is because of the base effect.

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