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As a verb, to throttle someone means to grip their throat tightly so they can't breathe — a strong, violent word, sometimes used as an too ("I could throttle him!" when you're just very , not really planning violence). As a noun, the throttle is the part of an engine — like on a or in a car — that controls how much fuel or power goes in, controlling speed; "open the throttle" means speed up. In computers and the internet, "throttle" means to deliberately slow something down — your phone company might "throttle" your internet speed after you use too much data.
扼住喉嚨；油門/節流閥；(網路)限速
組成Comes from the word "throat" — the throttle was originally the throat itself, or the act of gripping it.
同家族的字
- throatthrottle grew directly out of the word throat
原始詞典資料9 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。
throttlenoun詞源 1/ˈθɹɒt.l̩/
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A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
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The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
- To my unpractised eye, the undulations in the track were quite imperceptible, but the engineer's hand on the throttle was never still.
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archaicanatomymedicinesciencesThe windpipe or trachea.
- Then up got Peg, and round the house gan scuttle, / In search of goods her customer to nail, / Until the Sultaun strain'd his princely throttle, / And hollow'd,—"Ma'am, that is not what I ail.["]
- Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]
throttleverb詞源 2/ˈθɹɒt.l̩/
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To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
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To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
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To strangle or choke someone.
- Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.
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To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
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To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
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To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
- I have seen them shiver and look pale, Make periods in the midst of sentences, Throttle their practised accent in their fears.
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。