breath是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 呼吸， 气息，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
-- The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly mo-tionless.
-- 'Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered,' said the Ghost.
-- They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke be-70 Sons and Loverslow his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it.
-- But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender-and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.
-- All the human breath in the place, rolled at him, like a sea, or a wind, or a fire.
-- Conspicuous among these latter, like an ani-mated bit of the spiked wall of Newgate, Jerry stood: aiming at the prisoner the beery breath of a whet he had taken as he came along, and discharging it to mingle with the waves of other beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not, that flowed at him, and already broke upon the great windows behind him in an impure mist and rain.
-- Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the failing of a foun-tain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.
-- While they despise your breath, and would stop it for ever and ever, in you or in a hundred like you rather than in one of their own horses or 247dogs, they only know what your breath tells them.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is, no doubt, cold enough in your woods, but there at least is the breath of liberty; therefore fly away.
-- She was so down-A cast, so afraid that it should die!It was so pale, the small eyes had closed themselves, and it drew its breath so softly, now and then, with a deep respiration, as if it sighed; and the mother looked still more sorrowfully on the little creature.
-- As the old man trembled with cold, and the little child slept a moment, the mother went and poured some ale into a pot and set it on the stove, that it might be warm for him; the old man sat and rocked the cradle, and the mother sat down on a chair close by him, and looked at her little sick child that drew its breath so deep, and raised its little hand.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch could be calm when he thought of his wife, he could hope that she would come round, as Matvey expressed it, and could quietly go on reading his paper and drinking his coffee; but when he saw her tortured, suffering face, heard the tone of her voice, submissive to fate and full of despair, there was a catch in his breath and a lump in his throat, and his eyes began to shine with tears.
-- She drew one more deep breath of the fresh air, and had just put he hand out of her muff to take hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her, stepped between her and the flickering light of the lamp post.
-- She drew a loud breath and snorted out through her tense nostrils, started, pricked up her sharp ear, and put out her strong, black lip towards Vronsky, as though she would nip hold of his sleeve.
-- He felt that the mare was at her very last reserve of strength; not her neck and shoulders merely were wet, but the sweat was standing in drops on her mane, her head, her sharp ears, and her breath came in short, sharp gasps.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They charged on her, and Martin caught his breath savagely.
-- In the effort to expel her breath she writhed into terrifying knots, then coughed up saliva dotted with grayish specks.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mare stretched out her head, drew a long breath and died.
-- 'You'd better go out and get a breath of air,' she said after a pause.
-- She began slowly backing away from him into the corner, staring intently, persistently at him, but still uttered no sound, as though she could not get breath to scream.
-- She looked intently at the bed and the priest; she too was out of breath with running.
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