1. They used to suffer for about 37 hours after surgery on average with a plastic tube as thick as a thumb running through their mouth or nose and down 11 inches of their throat.
    过去，手术后病人平均要疼大约37个小时，一根拇指粗细的塑料导管经口腔或鼻腔插入喉咙，深至11英寸。

2. The tube assists breathing, but patients say it feels like a fire running through their throat and hurts more than having their chest cut open.
    导管帮助病人呼吸，但病人说感觉它就像一把火烧过喉咙，比开胸还难受。

3. After three weeks he was still completely unconscious, and the tube caused him to have a constant, painful sore throat ...
    三周后，他依旧昏迷不醒，而导管使他的喉咙经常疼痛。

4. As a result, the poor man continued on for nearly three more months with a painful throat and frequent bleeding caused by sores in the mouth.
    结果，可怜的老人又多活了近三个月，喉咙依然疼痛不已，嘴里也因灼痛而经常出血。

5. A lump formed in my throat.
    我不禁哽咽了。

6. She muffled her throat in a warm scarf not to catch a cold .
    她用一温暖的围巾围起脖子，以免感冒。

7. I have something stuck in my throat.
    我有什么东西刺入了我的喉内。