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breathe

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breathe /briːð/ ●●● S3 W3 verb  
1  air 空气AIR [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREATHE to take air into your lungs and send it out again 呼吸
 The room filled with smoke, and it was becoming difficult to breathe.
房间里全是烟，呼吸越来越困难。
 People are concerned about the quality of the air they breathe.
人们关心他们所呼吸的空气的质量。
 Relax and breathe deeply (=take in a lot of air).
放松，深呼吸。
2  blow 吹BLOW [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BREATHE to blow air or smoke out of your mouth 呼气；喷出〔烟〕
breathe on
 Roy breathed on his hands and rubbed them together vigorously.
罗伊往双手上哈了一口气，然后使劲地搓手。
breathe something over somebody
 The fat man opposite was breathing garlic all over me.
对面的那个胖男人满口大蒜味，直向我熏来。
3  somebody can breathe easy/easily RELAXEDused when saying that someone can relax because a worrying or dangerous situation has ended 某人可以放心了，某人可以松一口气
 With stocks going up, investors can breathe easily.
股票上涨，投资者可以放心了。
4  breathe a sigh of relief COMFORT/MAKE somebody FEEL BETTERto stop being worried or frightened about something 轻松地舒口气，松一口气
 Once the deadline passed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
最后期限一过，大家都松了一口气。
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breathe a sigh of relief• As you awaken from this nightmare, you breathe a sigh of relief.• In the end Krushchev backed down and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.• Marie breathed a sigh of relief.• The deadline came, the flood gates opened and we breathed a sigh of relief.• Yet the medical profession, seeing no upturn in the incidence of cancer, breathed a sigh of relief.• If the law lords tell Lord Young to publish, he will breathe a sigh of relief and obey.• She breathed a sigh of relief, and ran through to the living-room where she could hear Stephen's voice.• The Government could breathe a sigh of relief at the disappearance of some of its fiercest critics.• I breathed a sigh of relief that the boy had been found safe.
5  be breathing down somebody’s neck informalATTENTION to pay very close attention to what someone is doing, in a way that makes them feel nervous or annoyed 紧盯某人；严密监视某人
 How can I concentrate with you breathing down my neck all the time?
你总是这样盯着我，我怎么能集中注意力？
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be breathing down somebody’s neck• I'm already really busy today, and now Paul's breathing down my neck saying he wants the Paris deal completed.• I can't work with you breathing down my neck.• We'd better start sending out those letters soon -- I've had the sales manager breathing down my neck about it all week.• Labour and the Liberal Democrats are breathing down his neck.• Maybe the Assistant Commissioner's wife was breathing down Maxham's neck.• The staff is breathing down your neck.• He would be breathing down your neck all the time.
6  not breathe a word SECRETto not tell anyone anything at all about something, because it is a secret 不透露风声
 Don’t breathe a word; it’s supposed to be a surprise.
一个字都不要透露出去，这是一个惊喜。
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not breathe a word• He did not breathe a word.• You've got to promise not to breathe a word to anyone.
7  breathe life into something EXCITEDto change a situation so that people feel more excited or interested 给某物注入新生命
 Critics are hoping the young director can breathe new life into the French film industry.
影评家希望这位年轻导演会给法国的电影业注入新的生命。
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breathe life into something• We harness fossil energy and breathe life into machines.• Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.• Something unexplainable takes over and breathes life into the known life.• The deal aims to breathe life into the stationer's e-business efforts.• Now they each had a picture which they examined and re-examined, trying to breathe life into the two-dimensional image.• After the marriage, though, she wants to breathe life into their dry, platonic relationship.
8. skin 皮肤 [intransitiveI] if your skin can breathe, air can reach it 〔皮肤〕透气
9. clothes/fabric 衣服/织物 [intransitiveI] if cloth or clothing breathes, air can pass through it so that your body feels pleasantly cool and dry 〔布料或衣服〕透气
10. wine 葡萄酒WINE [intransitiveI]DFD if you let wine breathe, you open the bottle to let the air get to it before you drink it 〔打开瓶盖让葡萄酒〕通气
11  say STH quietly 轻声说SAY something QUIETLY [transitiveT] writtenSAY/STATE to say something very quietly, almost in a whisper 轻声说，低语
 ‘Wait, ’ he breathed.
“等一下。”他轻声说道。
12. breathe your last (breath) literaryDIE to die 咽下最后一口气，死
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breathe your last (breath)• In the blue light of the morning he breathed his last.• Millions who were dangerously ill or breathing their last.• Five hours more and she'd breathe her last and never know them.• When it looked as though he was breathing his last, Beria's face shone with delight.• Large-scale, publicly-owned enterprises will breathe their last gasp and wither away well before the state which spawned them.• The moment Carey was confident that Elizabeth had breathed her last he was in the saddle, racing for the Border.
13. breathe fire ANGRYto talk and behave in a very angry way 发火 → live and breathe something at live1(19)
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breathe fire• Ready to roar.Cricket's young dragons learning to breathe fire.• Opposed, he could breathe fire; contradicted or challenged, he could put up his fists and fight.• Some of us need bosses and editors breathing fire down our necks.• What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to govern?
14 breathe in phrasal verbphr v BREATHEto take air into your lungs 吸气 → inhale
 The doctor made me breathe in while he listened to my chest.
医生给我听胸部时，叫我吸气。
breathe something ↔ in
 Wyatt breathed in the cool ocean air.
怀亚特呼吸着凉爽的海风。
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breathe in• Every time I breathe in I get a pain in the left side of my chest.• They stood on the cliff breathing in the fresh sea air.• I put my handkerchief over my nose to avoid breathing in the smoke.
15 breathe out phrasal verbphr v BREATHEto send air out from your lungs 呼气 → exhale
 Jim breathed out deeply.
吉姆深深地呼出一口气。
breathe something ↔ out
 Lauren lit up a cigarette, then breathed out a puff of smoke.
劳伦点起一支香烟，吐出一口烟来。
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breathe out• Ballet dancers are taught to breathe in before they leap, and to breathe out after they land.• The doctor told her to breathe out slowly.
n COLLOCATIONS
adverbs
breathe deeply (=take long slow breaths of air)
She breathed deeply in the cool night air.
breathe heavily/hard (=breathe loudly especially after exercise)
He’d been running and he was breathing hard.
breathe fast/rapidly (=breathe quickly because of illness, fear etc)
He closed his eyes, breathing fast under the fever.
breathe slowly
Breathe slowly and try to relax.
breathe steadily/evenly
The baby was fast asleep and breathing steadily.
breathe easily
Make sure the injured person can breathe easily.
nouns
breathe some air/the air
It was wonderful to be outside and breathe some fresh air.
breathe fumes
These children are breathing traffic fumes all day long.
phrases
can hardly breathe
It was so hot that I felt as though I could hardly breathe.
have trouble/difficulty breathing
In high altitudes some people have trouble breathing.
struggle to breathe
The crowd pressed in around me and I struggled to breathe.
 THESAURUS
breathe [intransitiveI, transitiveT] to take air into your lungs and send it out again 呼吸
Mary knew he was asleep because he was breathing deeply.
玛丽知道他睡着了，因为他呼吸很深。
He breathed the clear spring air.
他呼吸着春天清爽的空气。
sigh to breathe out slowly and make a noise that shows you are disappointed, tired, relieved etc 叹气
She just sighed and shook her head.
她只是叹着气摇了摇头。
n‘Never mind, ’ he sighed. ‘I’m sure there’ll be other opportunities.’
pant to breathe quickly and noisily through your mouth, because you have been using a lot of effort 〔因吃力而〕气喘吁吁
They were panting by the time they got to the finish line.
到达终点时他们都气喘吁吁。
gasp to breathe very quickly and deeply and with difficulty 〔因呼吸困难而〕喘气，上气不接下气
Her eyes were wide, and she was gasping for breath.
她双目圆睁，大口喘着气。
n‘Do you think you can walk?’ ‘I’ll try to, ’ he gasped.
snore to breathe noisily while you are sleeping 打鼾
I couldn’t sleep because my husband was snoring.
我睡不着，因为我丈夫在打鼾。
wheeze to breathe with difficulty, making a noise in your throat and chest, because you are ill 〔因病〕呼哧呼哧地喘气
His asthma was making him wheeze.
他哮喘发作，呼哧呼哧地喘着气。
nbe out of breath to be unable to breathe easily, especially because you have been running or doing other exercise
I was out of breath by the time we reached the top of the hill.
nbe short of breath to be unable to breathe easily, especially because you are unhealthy
Because she was so overweight, she was often short of breath.
Examples from the Corpus
breathe• "Come closer, " he breathed.• My eyes began to sting and I couldn't breathe.• The air was so smoky it was difficult to breathe.• The boy was unconscious, but he was still breathing.• Billie kissed the baby, its hands moved, and Rob breathed.• We need it not only to breathe but to protect us.• It was cold, and everyone breathed clouds of vapor.• Her throat muscles useless, she was unable to breathe, cough, or swallow on her own.• I want you to breathe deeply and relax.• Either he was breathing heavily or that was wind in the trees.• Colonel Fergusson had his eyes closed and was breathing out through his nose in long smooth puffs like a bellows.• He's unconscious, breathing spontaneously, slightly hypothermic from exposure.
breathe deeply• I leaned over and breathed deeply.• I opened my eyes and gulped, breathing deeply.• Take a daily walk in the park and breathe deeply.• Better yet, you can breathe deeply and not choke on secondhand smoke.• I stopped, breathed deeply, and smiled as sweet air filled my lungs.• She sat for a while, becoming quieter, breathing deeply, ceasing to tremble.• Quinn breathed deeply, exhaled with a trembling chest, and breathed in again.• Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence.
breathe on• I breathed on my fingers to keep them warm.
Origin breathe
(1200-1300) breath
breathe verb →n COLLOCATIONS1 →THESAURUS1
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