名词

1. 呼出的气体；气息
Your breath is the air that you let out through your mouth when you breathe. If someone has bad breath, their breath smells unpleasant.

2. 吸气
When you take a breath, you breathe in once.

3. （风或气流的）一丝，丝毫
If you say that there is not a breath of wind or air, you are emphasizing that there is no wind and the air is very still.

4. 微量；少许
A breath of something, is a small amount of it.

5. （到室外）呼吸新鲜空气，透口气
If you go outside for a breath of fresh air or for a breath of air, you go outside because it is unpleasantly warm indoors.

6. 令人耳目一新的事物；新鲜刺激的东西
If you describe something new or different as a breath of fresh air, you mean that it makes a situation or subject more interesting or exciting.

7. 喘过气来；恢复正常呼吸
When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you start breathing normally again.

8. 喘口气；歇口气
When you catch your breath while you are doing something energetic, you stop for a short time so that you can start breathing normally again.

9. （通常因为震惊）倒吸一口冷气
If something makes you catch your breath, it makes you take a short breath of air, usually because it shocks you.

10. 喘口气；歇口气
If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.

11. 屏息；止住呼吸
If you hold your breath, you make yourself stop breathing for a few moments, for example because you are under water.

12. 屏息静气（焦急或激动地等待）
If you say that someone is holding their breath, you mean that they are waiting anxiously or excitedly for something to happen.

13. 不指望（某事发生）
If you say that you won't hold your breath, you mean that you do not expect something to happen even though someone has suggested that it might.

14. 最后一口气
When someone takes their last breath, they die.

15. 喘不过气；上气不接下气
If you are out of breath, you are breathing very quickly and with difficulty because you have been doing something energetic.

16. 但同时/但紧接着（尤用于谴责某人的言论自相矛盾）
You can use in the same breath or in the next breath to indicate that someone says two very different or contradictory things, especially when you are criticizing them.

17. 呼吸短促；呼吸困难
If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath .

18. （美或惊讶得）令（人）喘不过气来；使（人）惊叹
If you say that something takes your breath away, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or surprising.

19. 压低嗓音；低声地
If you say something under your breath, you say it in a very quiet voice, often because you do not want other people to hear what you are saying.

20. 白费唇舌
If someone says you are wasting your breath, they mean that the person you are talking to will not take any notice and so there is no point saying anything to them.

21. with bated breath - see bated
to fight for breath - see fight

1. the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing

e.g. he took a deep breath and dived into the pool
he was fighting to his last breath

2. an indirect suggestion

e.g. not a breath of scandal ever touched her

Synonym: hintintimation

3. a slight movement of the air

e.g. there wasn't a breath of air in the room

4. the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration

e.g. his sour breath offended her

5. a short respite

Synonym: breatherbreathing placebreathing spacebreathing spellbreathing time