咽喉: throat...
横七竖八: in disorder, at sixes and sevens (idiom)...
无情: pitiless, ruthless, merciless, heartless...
被捕: to be arrested, under arrest...
阅览室: reading room...
世袭: succession, inheritance, hereditary...
斜: inclined, slanting, oblique, tilting...
投: to cast, to send, to throw oneself (into the river etc), to seek refuge, to place oneself into the hands of...
丧失: to lose, to forfeit...
肩: shoulder, to shoulder (responsibilities etc)...