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 breath [breθ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 呼吸, 气息, 瞬间

[医] 呼气, 呵气, 口气, 呼吸


  1. I was out of breath after running for the bus.
    我因为追赶公共汽车，弄得上气不接下气。
  2. There is a breath of autumn in the air today.
    今天的天气已露出了一丝秋天的气息。
  3. Let's go out for a breath of fresh air.
    我们出去吸口新鲜空气吧。


breath
[ noun ]
  1. the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing

    2. <noun.act>
    he took a deep breath and dived into the pool
    he was fighting to his last breath
  2. the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration

    3. <noun.substance>
    his sour breath offended her
  3. a short respite

    4. <noun.time>
  4. an indirect suggestion

    5. <noun.communication>
    not a breath of scandal ever touched her
  5. a slight movement of the air

    6. <noun.phenomenon>
    there wasn't a breath of air in the room


Breath \Breath\ (br[e^]th), n. [OE. breth, breeth, AS.
br[=ae][eth] odor, scent, breath; cf. OHG. br[=a]dam steam,
vapor, breath, G. brodem, and possibly E. {Brawn}, and
{Breed}.]
1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in
the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has
received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.

Melted as breath into the wind. --Shak.

2. The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or
capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

3. The power of respiration, and hence, life. --Hood.

Thou takest away their breath, they die. --Ps. civ.
29.

4. Time to breathe; respite; pause.

Give me some breath, some little pause. --Shak.

5. A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single
act; an instant.

He smiles and he frowns in a breath. --Dryden.

6. Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.

The earthquake voice of victory,
To thee the breath of life. --Byron.

7. A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

A breath can make them, as a breath has made.
--Goldsmith.

8. A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.

Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.
--Addison.

9. Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. --Tennison.

The breath of flowers. --Bacon.

10. Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

An after dinner's breath. --Shak.

{Out of breath}, breathless, exhausted; breathing with
difficulty.

{Under one's breath}, in low tones.

  1. "Separating the seating doesn't separate the air we breath."
  2. On both sides, sweat-soaked tuggers gasped for breath from the effort.
  3. "If I were Allen, I would take a big breath and not do anything soon," one Wall Street executive said.
  4. Kansas Republicans are holding their collective breath, hoping they will hear good news when Sen. Nancy Kassebaum reveals later this month whether she will seek a third term in 1990.
  5. The food caught in Jamie's throat dislodged and he was able to breath again.
  6. "Our breath has been taken away by the speed" in which producing nations are putting out the welcome mat, Mr. Browne says.
  7. But almost in the next breath, Mandela departed from the normal decorum of such occasions by challenging Bush on the question of violence.
  8. The mammals are in shallow water only a few hundred feet offshore, where they have been rising to the surface every couple of minutes to breath through small _ and shrinking _ holes in the ice.
  9. The employee, according to the report, told a superior that the manager had alcohol on his breath and stumbled as he passed through a radiation-detecting device on the night of Oct. 10.
  10. But during the past half-year the guitarist six-string cognoscenti are beginning to mention in the same breath as Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck has toured Japan as Mick Jagger's handpicked lead player.
  11. "I'm not holding my breath on his voluntary departure," the president told reporters.
  12. "Ignore him," an elderly businessman advises the environmentalist under his breath, clearly getting caught up in the action.
  13. But I know he loves me, and I love him." New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, whose drug problem drew a one-month suspension last year, failed a breath test and was arrested when a trooper found him asleep in his car on the side of a highway.
  14. Verinder was cited for alleged speeding, but never was given a breath test for alcohol nor charged with drunken driving.
  15. To get attention, she angrily yanks the tube from her throat and holds her breath.
  16. In the same breath, however, he says he thinks highly of his abilities and looks forward to working with him for the foreseeable future. It seems unlikely, then, that he will be pressed to step down.
  17. Next time your telephone engineer starts humming cheerfully under his breath, or you meet someone from the BBC who is not moaning, you'll know why.
  18. If you experience shortness of breath or persistent coughing or wheezing, the first thing is to seek medical advice on begining diagnostic tests.
  19. A Battelle Memorial Institute invention gives a chemical breakdown of the breath every 1.5 seconds, allowing continuous monitoring of the breath for chemical signs of disease, such as cirrhosis of the liver and lung cancer.
  20. A Battelle Memorial Institute invention gives a chemical breakdown of the breath every 1.5 seconds, allowing continuous monitoring of the breath for chemical signs of disease, such as cirrhosis of the liver and lung cancer.
  21. The nearly universal hope in Poland, however, is that Communism has gasped its last breath.
  22. IRS Revenue Procedure 92-16 is a breath of relief for company plans that invested with failed insurers such as Executive Life, of California.
  23. Testimony indicated he may have had a blood-alcohol level of 0.22 percent at the time of the wreck, five times the legal limit. Witnesses said they smelled alcohol on his breath before and after the wreck.
  24. In 1984, Hazelwood's driving license was revoked after he refused a breath test following another car accident.
  25. Under this guideline, which was adopted in the 1980s, both deficits and surpluses are meant to be limited to the automatic effects of recession and boom - the so-called built-in stabilisers. We should now pause for breath.
  26. Ingster, who spent four years in Sachsenhausen and other death camps, said he stayed on because he was exhausted. "I needed time to catch my breath.
  27. The 100-share index has risen about 130 points in two weeks and "only paused for breath twice," he said.
  28. A squeeze sent BAA 5 forward to 788p. Textile group Coats Viyella paused for breath following a rise on the back of an in-depth BZW buy note.
  29. "I'm scared," she murmured under her breath as she paced nervously, holding her youngest child to her breast.
  30. People were "holding their breath" until Section 89 was dropped, said Evan Wolfson, a lawyer with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights group based in New York.
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