身體上的喉嚨
這一組是字面的用法，只差在從裡面看還是從外面看：一個是那條管子，一個是脖子前面那一片。
throat (passage) · noun · B1
The passage at the back of your mouth that goes down to your lungs and stomach.
喉嚨
核心畫面
Picture a narrow passage at the front of the neck that everything has to squeeze through: air, food, water, your own voice. It is essential and it is soft - no bone in front of it. Those two facts, a passage things pass through and a spot with nothing protecting it, run through every use of the word.
可以想成 throat 是脖子前面那條窄窄的通道：空氣、食物、水、還有你自己的聲音，全都得從這裡擠過去。它一方面很重…更多收起
可以想成 throat 是脖子前面那條窄窄的通道：空氣、食物、水、還有你自己的聲音，全都得從這裡擠過去。它一方面很重要，一方面很脆弱——前面沒有骨頭擋著。「東西要通過的通道」和「沒有保護的要害」這兩件事，幾乎撐起了 throat 所有的用法。Three branches
東西通過這條通道
喉嚨是條通道，東西得從這裡過。這一組講的都是通道上的動作——自己把它弄通，或是被別人硬推進來。
clear your throat · noun · B1
In 'clear your throat', to make a small rough sound in your throat, often before speaking or to get attention.
清喉嚨
喉嚨是要害
脖子前面沒有骨頭擋著，是動物互咬時第一個瞄準的地方。這一組把喉嚨當成「要害」用：手伸向誰的喉嚨，就是要往最致命的地方去。
be at each other's throats · noun · B1
In 'be at each other's throats', if two people are at each other's throats, they are fighting or arguing angrily.
吵得不可開交
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
throatnoun/ˈθɹəʊt/
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The front part of the neck.
- The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- 2
The gullet or windpipe.
- As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
- 3
A narrow opening in a vessel.
- The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
- 4
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place.
- This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form.
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nauticaltransportThe upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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nauticaltransportThat end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
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nauticaltransportThe angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor
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businessmanufacturingshipbuildingThe inside of a timber knee.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
throatverb/ˈθɹəʊt/
- 1
To utter in or with the throat.
- He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.
- As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...
- 2
informalTo take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.
- His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.
- 3
obsoletedialectalTo mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。