breathless

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breath·less /ˈbreθləs/ adjectiveadj

1 BREATHEhaving difficulty breathing, especially because you are very tired, excited, or frightened 气喘吁吁的，喘不过气来的

The long climb left Jan feeling breathless.

攀爬了那么长时间，简感到喘不过气来。

breathless with

They waited, breathless with anticipation.

他们屏息以待。

2 written excited 激动的

His first novel drew breathless superlatives from critics.

他的第一部小说赢得书评家的高度赞誉。

3. at (a) breathless pace/speed extremely fast 以惊人的速度

Examples from the Corpus

at (a) breathless pace/speed• Though she has had little education, her vocabulary is excellent: she fountains out ideas and observations at breathless speed.• Indeed, Moffett worked at a breathless pace to ensure that those issues were addressed before the annual meeting took place.

4 UNPLEASANT literary unpleasantly hot, with no fresh air or wind 闷热无风的，令人透不过气的

the breathless heat of a midsummer night in Rome

罗马仲夏夜令人窒息的暑气

—breathlessly adverbadv

—breathlessness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

breathless• Walking up ten flights of stairs left him breathless.• In spite of the fact that he was stationary, Mungo felt breathless.• Speed puts some people to sleep; others it makes breathless.• The fight had left him breathless.• He was breathless and moving at high speed, but there was nothing agitated or uncontrolled about him.• She halted, left a trifle breathless as usual by the sight of him in a dress suit.• a breathless August night• It is also written in a kind of breathless journalese that makes one's nerves stand on end.• Indeed, Moffett worked at a breathless pace to ensure that those issues were addressed before the annual meeting took place.• They left me breathless, staggering, laughing to myself.

breath·less adjectiveadj

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