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 breathing ['bri:ðiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 呼吸, 瞬间, 微风

a. 呼吸的, 逼真的

[医] 呼吸, 呼吸音


  1. The astronauts have special breathing apparatus.
    宇航员有特殊的呼吸装置。
  2. They walked through the forest breathing the scent of pines.
    他们步行穿过森林,呼吸着松树的芳香。
  3. He sprayed some nasal spray into the nose to make breathing easier.
    他往鼻子里喷了些鼻雾喷剂,让呼吸畅通些。


breathing
[ noun ]
  1. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

  2. <noun.act>
[ adj ]
  1. passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination

  2. <adj.all>
    the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs
    the heavy-breathing person on the telephone


Breathe \Breathe\ (br[=e][th]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Breathed}
(br[=e][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Breathing}.] [From {Breath}.]
1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. ``I
am in health, I breathe.'' --Shak.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land! --Sir W. Scott
[The Lay of
the Last
Minstrel].
[1913 Webster +PJC]

2. To take breath; to rest from action.

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! --Shak.

3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to
emanate; to blow gently.

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. --Shak.

There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.
--Byron.


Breathing \Breath"ing\, n.
1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.

Subject to a difficulty of breathing. --Melmoth.

2. Air in gentle motion.

3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the
breathings of the Spirit.

4. Aspiration; secret prayer. ``Earnest desires and
breathings after that blessed state.'' --Tillotson.

5. Exercising; promotion of respiration.

Here is a lady that wants breathing too;
And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Are excellent in making ladies trip. --Shak.

6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words.

I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. --Shak.

7. Breathing place; vent. --Dryden.

8. Stop; pause; delay.

You shake the head at so long a breathing. --Shak.

9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction
of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when
the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed
by the letter h.

10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence.
See {Rough breathing}, {Smooth breathing}, below.

{Breathing place}.
(a) A pause. ``That c[ae]sura, or breathing place, in the
midst of the verse.'' --Sir P. Sidney.
(b) A vent.

{Breathing time}, pause; relaxation. --Bp. Hall.

{Breathing while}, time sufficient for drawing breath; a
short time. --Shak.

{Rough breathing} ({spiritus asper}) ([spasp]). See 2d
{Asper}, n.

{Smooth breathing} ({spiritus lenis}), a mark (') indicating
the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai).

  1. The baby had trouble breathing, Brouilette said.
  2. "Sooner or later we were going to bump into the ceiling," Marquez said. "This gives us some breathing room." The INEL is the only facility in the nation other than Rocky Flats that can accept the waste right now.
  3. He has a portable breathing apparatus and a feeding tube and sometimes gets around in a golf cart.
  4. Its patients, referred from short-term hospitals, stay an average of 100 days; 70% are over age 65, and 60% require breathing support.
  5. Describing his findings in May, Cary said the experiment has shown that a bullet wound to the brain stops respiration but, if respiration is supported artificially, the animal will begin breathing again on its own.
  6. The girl was placed back on a respirator to relieve breathing problems she experienced Friday after fluid began collecting in her lungs and other parts of her body.
  7. Although trainers swam with the whale and tried to keep it breathing, it died within about 10 minutes.
  8. We think we know how the Supreme Court could rule that it's easier to introduce involuntary confessions than voluntary confessions: It's the result of 30 years of breathing the ever-thinner jurisprudential air of the exclusionary rule.
  9. The missing whale got its name because skin on its snout had been rubbed down to the bone by the rough ice surrounding a breathing hole that kept the mammals alive.
  10. Many of the miners whose bodies have been retrieved suffocated from lack of air after their emergency breathing masks ran out of oxygen, while others died from their injuries, officials said.
  11. The disease causes the formation of a thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and digestive tract, blocking breathing and digestion.
  12. Soon to come is positive-pressure breathing that forces air into the lungs and forces a pilot to exhale.
  13. Fiennes and vocal coach Andrew Wade were showing how Shakespeare's Elizabethan language emerges clearly through breathing and technical exercises which the teachers can apply at home.
  14. Indeed, while the spills' long-term environmental damage has yet to be assessed, officials throughout the Gulf are breathing a collective sigh of relief.
  15. The screams stopped and Garland emerged from the bathroom saying "something was wrong, that his friend wasn't breathing," the detective said.
  16. One was about the size as the surviving whales and had numerous wounds on its snout similar to those the trapped whales suffered as they nosed up through their ice-clogged breathing holes.
  17. Leaf smoke can make breathing extremely difficult for sufferers of asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and allergies, said Maggie Robbins of the Chicago Lung Association.
  18. A month later, the ozone-exposed rats had retained twice as many asbestos fibers in their lungs as had a control group exposed to asbestos after breathing pure air.
  19. Some spend years tethered to breathing and feeding tubes; the government's Office of Technology Assessment estimates that up to 17,000 children need such devices to survive.
  20. The machines, designed to be used in the homes of high-risk babies, are supposed to sound an alarm when an infant stops breathing, or if the monitor detects irregular heart rate or respiration.
  21. "It just gives us some breathing room," said Klein. "We still have to get a permanent site." Move over, Paris.
  22. There is no breathing, no heart function.
  23. A daughter, Heather, was hospitalized three weeks after birth in June 1985 for an apnea disorder, described as a tendency to stop breathing without cause.
  24. Faina Chiang, widow of former President Chiang Ching-kuo, was rushed to a hospital Thursday after she had difficulty breathing because of a lung problem, hospital officials reported.
  25. With more than 100 million people breathing air the government considers unhealthy and growing concern over the destruction of streams and lakes by acid rain, there is little disagreement over the need for tougher federal air pollution controls.
  26. The Infant and Child CPR Campaign will encourage parents, grandparents, baby sitters and others to learn how to deal with breathing emergencies in infants and children.
  27. The Bulgarian BTA news agency said in February that the sharp smell of chlorine made breathing difficult, forcing people to clamp handkerchiefs over their mouths and race for shelter.
  28. As one Bombay banker says: 'The banks will modernise but control will stay 90 per cent with the government.' THE Indian government is breathing a sigh of relief.
  29. Nightly pictures of their battered and bleeding snouts protruding from a breathing hole cut like a harpoon into American hearts.
  30. The baby is suffering breathing difficulty because her lungs are insufficiently developed.
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