He was trying to say something and I leaned down close to try and hear what it was but it just turned into a death rattle.他想要说些什么，我俯下身贴近他，努力想听清他说的话，但只听到他喉头发出的声响。His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.他的慷慨陈词听起来像是一个衰落的领导层垂死的挣扎。