breathe是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 呼吸， 吸入，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They wish to bring this woman into the house where my wife and daughter reside, but while I live and breathe she shall never enter my doors.
-- She had never once spoken to me like this before; it was the first time I felt I could breathe before her like a living creature.'
-- You may kiss me; I breathe freely at last.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made sure that this very day I should breathe my last and go down into the house of Hades.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young hounds go laughing and singing too much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe louder than a fox in his cov-er.
-- It was in the afternoon of the fifth day of the siege, and the fourth of his own service in it, that Major Heyward profited by a parley that had just been beaten, by repairing to the ramparts of one of the water bastions, to breathe the cool air from the lake, and to take a survey of the progress of the siege.
-- Duncan began to breathe more freely, believing that the weight of his exami-nation was past; and, as he had already prepared a simple and probable tale to support his pretended occupation, his hopes of ultimate success grew brighter.
-- A motion of a finger was the intima-tion he gave the supposed physician to follow; and passing through the clouds of smoke, Duncad was glad, on more ac-counts than one, to be able at last to breathe the pure air of a cool and refreshing summer evening.
-- The younger men were content with touching his robe, or even drawing nigh his person, in order to breathe in the atmosphere of one so aged, so just, and so valiant.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The air you breathe is an elixir which prepares you for the unexpected.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The turn of the rocks sheltered them from the wind, and they could breathe after this walk or rather run of a quarter of an hour.
-- The engineer, revived by this rude shampooing, moved his arm slightly and began to breathe more regularly.
-- Did some marine monster come from time to time, to breathe at the bottom of this well?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I have not told you the greatest change of all, and this you must never breathe again to any one.
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
-- Her own name struck upon the listener's ear, coupled with some wish so fervent, that he seemed to breathe it in an agony of supplication.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, to breathe freely; to go abroad-- to Rome--and continue to work on my picture."
-- "Well, it is all the same; I will simply breathe freely.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now one can breathe more easily,' said the Knight, putting back his shaggy hair with both hands, and turning his gentle face and large mild eyes to Alice.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim and I shall stick together in the meanwhile; you'll take Joyce and Hunter when you ride to Bristol, and from first to last, not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus provided, I can breathe and I can see."
-- As soon as it was in position, the Rouquayrol apparatus on our backs began to act; and, for my part, I could breathe with ease.
-- Before twenty minutes were over we should be on board, and I should be able to breathe with ease, for it seemed that my reservoir supplied air very deficient in oxygen.
-- "Also," he added, "true existence is there; and I can imagine the foundations of nautical towns, clusters of submarine houses, which, like the Nautilus, would ascend every morning to breathe at the surface of the water, free towns, independent cities.
扩展阅读：