英和和英

副詞

chokingly (comparative more chokingly, superlative most chokingly)

1. While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:

     Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.

   • 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory‎^[1]:

     Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.

   • 1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.

   • 2007 April 12, Richard Eder, “A Line Divides Art and Life. Erase It at Your Own Risk.”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.

参考

• chokily