breathe

英 [briːð] 美 [briːð]

• vi. 呼吸
• vt. 轻声说；流露（自信等感情）；注入

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 呼吸

   draw in and let out air from the lungs; take air into the body and send it out again

2. vt. 轻松说话; 低语

   say softly; whisper

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 呼吸
2. 透气
3. 呼出
4. 呼气
5. 使喘气
6. 使疲劳
7. 吸气
8. 使（运动员）出力训练
9. 通气
10. 栩栩如生
11. 轻轻唱
12. 使歇口气
13. 活着
14. 轻吹
15. 使休息
16. 轻拂
17. 【语】发气音
18. 休息一下
19. 吸入
20. 使喘息
21. 低声说出，低声说，低语
22. 散发，流露
23. 【语】发
24. 平静下来
25. 松一口气
26. 紧盯着某人看
27. 通气飘香
28. 充满
29. 生存
30. 发散
31. 注入

英英释义

Verb:

1. draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs;

   "I can breathe better when the air is clean"
   "The patient is respiring"
   

2. be alive;

   "Every creature that breathes"
   

3. impart as if by breathing;

   "He breathed new life into the old house"
   

4. allow the passage of air through;

   "Our new synthetic fabric breathes and is perfect for summer wear"
   

5. utter or tell;

   "not breathe a word"
   

6. manifest or evince;

   "She breathes the Christian spirit"
   

7. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax

8. reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked;

   "This rare Bordeaux must be allowed to breathe for at least 2 hours"
   

9. expel (gases or odors)

例句

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. Fish cannot breathe out of water.
   鱼离开水就不能呼吸。
2. It is difficult to breathe at these altitudes.
   在这些高的地方很难呼吸。
3. We breathe through the nasal passage.
   我们通过鼻腔呼吸。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Promise me you won't breathe a word of this to anyone.
   答应我别将此事泄漏给任何人。
2. His poems breathe sentimentality.
   他的诗歌流露多愁善感的情调。
3. His enthusiasm breathed new life into the company.
   他的热情给公司注入了新的生命。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. His heart beat so that he could hardly breathe.
   他的心跳得他呼吸都很困难了。
2. As long as I breathe,I'll fight them.
   只要一息尚存,我就要跟他们斗。
3. I'll love you as long as I breathe.
   只要我还活着,我一定爱你。
4. The elephant was still breathing, so we knew it was still alive.
   那头大象仍在呼吸,所以我们知道它仍然活着。
5. Everyone breathed freely once more.
   大家又都安心了。
6. We could hardly breathe at such a high altitude.
   在这样的高度我们呼吸感到很困难。
7. The higher they went, the more difficult it was to breathe.
   他们越往山上走,呼吸越困难。
8. He was breathing hard when he finished the race.
   跑完全程后,他费力地喘着气。
9. The doctor told Charlie to breathe deeply.
   大夫要查利深呼吸。
10. I shan't be able to breathe again until the examination results are received.
    只有接到考试成绩通知,我心上的石头才能落地。
11. As soon as the policeman went away, he was able to breathe again.
    警察一走开,他又恢复了平静。
12. The danger is over; we can breathe again now.
    危险已经过去,我们现在可以放下心来了。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. We breathe air all the time.If we stop breathing, we will die.
   我们不停地呼吸。如果我们停止吸气,那我们就会死。
2. They came out of the tunnel and thankfully breathed the fresh air.
   他们走出地道,贪婪地吸着新鲜空气。
3. She breathed a sigh of relief.
   她放心地松了口气。
4. As all animals and plants breathe air, we can be quite sure there is no life on the moon.
   动植物都要呼吸空气,所以我们完全可以断言月球上没有生命。
5. He breathed words of love into her ear.
   他轻声在她耳畔倾吐爱恋之言。
6. She breathed a dead-and-alive “Good afternoon.”
   她无精打采地轻轻说了声“下午好”。
7. She never breathed a word about it.
   她对这件事绝口不提。
8. She breathed her advice softly.
   她低声作劝告。
9. He breathed tobacco smoke into my face.
   他对着我的脸喷香烟。
10. He really breathes fire when he gets angry!
    他发脾气时真的能吐出火来。
11. The flower breathes fragrance.
    花吐芳香。
12. The sunburnt grass breathed a harvest breath of dry sweetness and content.
    草给阳光晒枯了,发出一阵叫人意满心欢的收获期的芳香气息。
13. The novel breathed despair.
    这部小说表现出绝望的情绪。
14. The article breathes the spirit of the age.
    这篇文章反映出时代精神。
15. They were breathing the horses after the hard ride.
    一阵飞奔之后,他们让马歇一会儿。
16. On the morning of November 12,1939,Dr.Bethune breathed his last.
    在1939年11月12日早晨,白求恩大夫停止了呼吸。
17. The wounded soldier fell back on the ground and breathed his last.
    伤兵倒地气绝而亡。
18. The old man said something to his son below his breath and breathed his last breath.
    那老人低声地对儿子说了点什么,然后就死了。
19. I promised not to breathe a syllable about what he told me.
    我保证决不吐露他对我讲的任何事。
20. He didn't breathe a word to anyone.
    他对任何人都只字未提。
21. I will not breathe it to another man.
    这事我不会泄露给别人。
22. In the University of Cambridge, he breathed the breath of intellectual freedom for the first time.
    在剑桥大学,他第一次呼吸到思想自由的空气。
23. Don't worry,I wouldn't breathe a word of your secret.
    别担心,我不会泄漏你的秘密。
24. He had never breathed a word of his going abroad to me.
    关于他出国的事,他对我只字未提。
25. I'll tell you the secret if you promise not to breathe a word of it to anybody.
    如果你保证不向任何人吐露,我就告诉你这个秘密。
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26. Not a word must be breathed to anyone about this.
    关于这件事,绝不能向任何人透露。

引出直接引语

1. “What's his name?”“Lu Jiachuan,” breathed Yu Yongze.
   “他叫什么名字?”“卢嘉川。”余永泽说道。

其他

v -ing as Attrib.

1. The breathing apparatus includes the nose, throat and lungs.
   呼吸器官包括鼻子、咽喉和肺。

经典引文

• A warmth Breathes out of her.

  出自：Pericles , Shakespeare

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

breathe in( v.+adv. )

全神贯注地听 put one's heart into listening
breathe in
In the morning I open the window wide and breathe in deeply.

早晨我敞开窗户,做深呼吸。
We have to breathe in and out so many times a minute.

每分钟我们都得呼吸那么多次。 breathe sth ⇔ in
When you're breathing deeply, you're breathing some fresh air in.

当你深呼吸时,就会吸入一些新鲜空气。
In large cities people breathe in dangerous gases from cars and chimneys.

在大城市人们呼吸时吸入汽车和烟囱排出的有害气体。
If men breathed in the fine paint spray, their lungs would be damaged.

如果人们吸入这种细微的漆雾,他们的肺部就会受到损伤。
He became ill after breathing in a lot of coal dust for many years.

多年来他吸入了大量煤尘,后来他得了病。 breathe sth ⇔ in
She breathed in every word the professor was saying.

她专心致志地聆听教授所说的每句话。

breathe into( v.+prep. )

使(某物)复苏 make (sth) active again
breathe into sth
The police asked us to breathe into the chemical to see if we were drunk.

警察让我们朝药物呼气,来检验我们是否喝过酒。
You can often save a person's life by breathing into his mouth.

采用口对口呼吸常能抢救一个人的生命。 breathe new life into sth
The firm was about to fail when a new director was appointed; he breathed new life into the company and soon it was successful.

该公司濒临倒闭之时任命了一位新经理; 是他给这个公司带来了生气,使它很快兴旺起来。
She breathed new life into the party.

她给晚会带来了生气。

breathe on〔upon〕( v.+prep. )

损毁(名誉) cause a poor opinion of (sth)

breathe out( v.+adv. )

说出(某话语) express (sth)
breathe out
The doctor asked me to breathe in, then to breathe out fully.

医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。 breathe sth ⇔ out
He breathed out wine fumes.

他呼出的气有酒味。
At parties,I don't like to be with people who breathe out smoke all over me.

聚会时,我不愿意和那些在我周围喷烟吐雾的人在一起。 breathe sth ⇔ out
He stood with his arms raised to the sky, breathing out curses.

他站着把双臂举向空中,诅咒着。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• breathe a sigh of relief 叹一口气算是放心了
• breathe air 呼吸空气
• breathe new life into 向…注入新生命
• breathe one's last breath 断气,死
• breathe oxygen 呼吸氧气

～+副词

• breathe again 如释重负
• breathe fast 呼吸加快
• breathe hard 呼吸困难
• breathe forth perfume 散发出香味
• breathe deeply 深呼吸
• breathe freely 安下心来,宽心
• breathe gaspingly 喘气
• breathe irregularly 不规则地呼吸
• breathe rhythmically 有节奏地呼吸
• breathe uneasily 呼吸困难
• breathe in a lot of coal dust 吸入大量煤尘
• breathe in dangerous gases 吸入有害气体
• breathe in the fresh air 吸入新鲜空气
• breathe out 呼出
• breathe out reproaches 说出责备的话

～+介词

• breathe sth against 对…表示不平
• breathe as a free man 像自由人一样呼吸
• breathe down one's neck 监视,跟着
• breathe into 将…注入
• breathe of the secret 泄露秘密
• breathe on〔upon〕 对着…呵气,中伤…
• breathe on a mirror 向镜子上呵气
• breathe through the nostrils 由鼻孔呼吸
• breathe with difficulty 呼吸困难
• live and breathe with the people 与人民同呼吸共命运

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. breathe的基本意思是“呼吸”,即生物体与外界进行气体交换。可以表示“呼吸”,也可指单独地呼出(与out连用)或单独地“吸入”(与in连用)。引申可表示“吐露”,在书面语里breathe还可引出直接引语,作“说出”解。
2. breathe可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语。
3. breathe可接同源宾语,以加强动作的意义,但在固定短语里常省略并与物主代词连用,如breathe one's last。
4. breathe作“吐露”解时通常用于否定句,吐露的内容由介词about引出,而“向…吐露”则须接介词to。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

breathe, take breath

• 两者意义不同,前者的意思是“呼吸”,后者的意思是“歇口气(休息)”。

breathe, breadth

• 这两个词词形相近,但意思不同。breadth意为“宽度”“度量”或“广博”,是名词; breathe意为“呼吸”,是动词。

常见错误

v. (动词)

1. 他停下来,深深地吸了一口气。

   误 He stopped to take a deep breathe.

   正 He stopped to take a deep breath.

   析 breathe是动词,其名词是breath。

近反义词

【近义词】

• exhale
• inhale

【反义词】

• smother 窒息
• suffocate 使窒息
• choke 窒息