下咽

zhè xiē yào ruò yòng shuǐ tūn fú gèng yì xià yàn

这些药若用水吞服更易下咽。

It'll be easier to swallow these tablets if you take them with water.

hóu lóng shǒu shù hòu tā xià yàn kùn nan

喉咙手术后，她下咽困难。

Since her operation on the throat she's found it difficult to swallow.

nán xià yàn

难下咽

find it hard to swallow

tā men gěi wǒ men de nà xiē shí wù jiǎn zhí nán yǐ xià yàn

他们给我们的那些食物简直难以下咽。

Such food as they gave us was scarcely fit to eat.

tā men què shí shì yī duì tiān zuò zhī hé yīn wèi méi yǒu rén néng xiàng mǔ qīn nà yàng shāo jiāo shí wù yě méi yǒu rén xiàng fù qīn zhè yàng ān rán xià yàn

他们确实是一对天作之合，因为没有人能像母亲那样烧焦食物，也没有人像父亲这样安然下咽。

Theirs truly was a marriage made in heaven for no one could burn food like my mother or eat it like my dad.