根据《细胞》杂志所说，这种情绪的涌现都是扁桃体的错，因为这个大脑恐惧线路的关键的小东西可以感知窒息状态并触发恐惧情绪。

Well, a new study in the journal Cell says you can thank your amygdala for that. Because this key member of the brain’s fear circuitry can directly sense suffocation, and trigger feelings of terror.

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喉部尖锐的压迫感和剧烈的疼痛，让他从这种状态中苏醒过来——仿佛来到几个时代之后。接下来是一阵窒息。

From this state he was awakened — ages later, it seemed to him — by the pain of a sharp pressure upon his throat, followed by a sense of suffocation.

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在此状态下常常会发生令人窒息的罗曼史。

Romantic suffocation can often happen under these conditions.

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