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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he gets out and has a breath of air 芒聙娄 it is fearfully close in his room芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When my motheris out of breath and rests herself in an elbow-chair, I watch herwinding her bright curls round her fingers, and straightening herwaist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look sowell, and is proud of being so pretty.
-- Can I say of her innocent and girlishbeauty, that it faded, and was no more, when its breath falls on mycheek now, as it fell that night?
-- I had answered in a kind ofbreathless whisper, but I felt, in my silence, that my breath wasshorter now.
-- How well I recollect the kind of day it was!I smell the fog thathung about the place; I see the hoar-frost, ghostly, through it; I feelmy rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dimperspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here andthere to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boyswreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon theirfingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.
-- 'As I have got my breath now, I think I'll measure thisyoung scholar.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One is so fenced and guarded from the weather, that not a breath of air can find its way unpermit-ted.
-- She made her plan; she would speak of something totally different the children in Brunswick Square; and she only waited for breath to begin, when Mr. Knightley startled her, by saying, 'You will not ask me what is the point of envy. You are determined, I see, to have no curiosity. You are wise but I cannot be wise.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a time when in cottages the breath of the sleepers freezes to the sheets; when round the drawing-room fire of a thick-walled mansion the sitters' backs are cold, even whilst their faces are all aglow.
-- "Farmer Oak I " she said, pausing for want of breath pulling up in front of him with a slanted face and putting her hand to her side.
-- "I wouldn't think of giving such trouble to neighbours in washing up when there's so much work to be done in the world already," continued Oak in a moister tone, after recovering from the stoppage of breath which is occasioned by pulls at large mugs.
-- said Bathsheba, exhaling her relief in the form of a long breath which had lain in her bosom a minute or more.
-- The men breathed an audible breath of amazement.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His breath in her face was strong with Bourbon whiskymingled with a faint fragrance of mint.
-- Scarlett sank to the stool, her breath coming so rapidly she feared the lacings of her stays would burst.
-- She could and did love Ashley with the last breath in her body, but that did not prevent herfrom inveigling other men into asking to marry her.
-- Mrs. Merriwether's breath went out of her lungs as explosively as though she had been punched.
-- Mrs. Merriwether's breath had come back and she charged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not so much as get his breath to speak, until they were both separately handcuffed, but leaned upon a soldier to keep himself from falling.
-- After that, it became customary with us to have it as we moved about, and Estella would often join in; though the whole strain was so subdued, even when there were three of us, that it made less noise in the grim old house than the lightest breath of wind.
-- So he got into his place, still making complaints, and the keeper got into the place next him, and the convicts hauled themselves up as well as they could, and the convict I had recognized sat behind me with his breath on the hair of my head.
-- When I had rung at the bell with an unsteady hand, I turned my back upon the gate, while I tried to get my breath and keep the beating of my heart moderately quiet.
-- I wished that Wemmick had not met me, or that I had not yielded to him and gone with him, so that, of all days in the year on this day, I might not have had Newgate in my breath and on my clothes.
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