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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.
-- Snow-drop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop's breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead.
-- When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this exploit, I walked gently to and fro on the bed, to recover my breath and loss of spirits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Mr. Sleary, who was troubled with asthma, and whose breath came far too thick and heavy for the letter s, 'Your thervant!Thith ith a bad piethe of bithnith, thith ith.
-- The whole company perceived the force of the change, and drew a long breath together, that plainly said, 'she will go!'
-- And as often (and it was very often) as an orator of this kind brought into his peroration,'Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made,' it was, for certain, more or less understood among the company that he had heard of Mrs. Sparsit.
-- Every letter that I see in Mr. Gradgrind's hand takes my breath away and blinds my eyes, for I think it comes from father, or from Mr. Sleary about father.
-- From the outside of his home he gloomily passed to the inside, with suspended breath and with a slow footstep.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words.
-- About ten o'clock in the morning, the symptoms of the storm became more thorough and decisive; the wind appeared to soften down as if to take breath for a renewed attack; the vast funereal pall above us looked like a huge bag--like the cave of AEolus, in which the storm was collecting its forces for the attack.
-- I could feel his hot and fetid breath on my neck; and with a horrid jump--awoke from my nightmare sleep.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she exclaimed, with hardly breath to utter it.
-- But it was the breath of Persephone, this time; she was out of hell on a cold morn-ing.
-- She heard the catch of his intaken breath as he found her.
-- Now I'm out of breath with you.
-- His body shivered suddenly in an indrawn breath of si-lent sobbing, and the tears ran quicker down his face.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The door clashed the key turned and a ray of unusual light, and a breath of unusual air, seemed to have passed through the jail, vanishing in a tiny wreath of smoke from the cigar.
-- Mr Casby lived in a street in the Gray's Inn Road, which had set off from that thoroughfare with the intention of running at one heat down into the valley, and up again to the top of Pentonville Hill; but which had run itself out of breath in twenty yards, and had stood still ever since.
-- When his knock at the bright brass knocker of obsolete shape brought a woman-servant to the door, those faded scents in truth saluted him like wintry breath that had a faint remembrance in it of the bygone spring.
-- This elicited a word or two of explanation from Clennam, during the delivery of which the short dark man held his breath and looked at him.
-- Flora had at last talked herself out of breath for one moment.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It quite took their breath away, and they stared first at the table and then at their mother, who looked as if she enjoyed it immensely.
-- Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irre-sistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
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