Doctors have better things to do than telephone the health department with every cough and splutter .
医生除了电话通知卫生部发生了多少次咳嗽，多少唾沫飞溅外，还有其他更有意义的事情可以做。
In postcolonial india and china , where billions are now being coerced into a transition from agrarian to urban industrial economies , this cycle had barely begun before it began to splutter .
殖民时代结束的印度，现在数十亿被强制性地从农业耕地转入城市工业经济，周期开始仓促之前它才勉强开始。
The engine gave a splutter and went dead .
引擎啪地一声熄了火。
She dive into the water and come up cough and splutter .
