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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On issuing from the gorges of the Cordilleras, Glenarvan and his band came first to plains of sand, called MEDANOS, lying in ridges like waves of the sea, and so extremely fine that the least breath of wind agitated the light particles, and sent them flying in clouds, which rose and fell like water-spouts.
-- A pale glimmer appeared in the horizon, and pearly drops of dew lay thick on the plain and on the tall grass, already stirred by the breath of day.
-- Evidently motive power lay in the cloud itself, for there was not a breath of wind.
-- Glenarvan and his companions being thus delivered from the voracious SAURIANS, stationed themselves on the branches windward of the conflagration, while the OMBU sailed along like a blazing fire-ship through the dark night, the flames spreading themselves round like sails before the breath of the hurricane.
-- The rain had given place to light mists, which a breath of wind dispersed, and the heavy masses of cloud had separated, and now streaked the sky in long bands.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You tell me in the same breath that it is useless to investigate Sir Charles's death, and that you desire me to do it.'
-- The words took away my breath for an instant, but a glance at the placid face and steadfast eyes of my compan-ion showed that no surprise was intended.
-- He walked into the room, and as he did so Barrymore sprang up from the window with a sharp hiss of his breath and stood, livid and trembling, before us.
-- I heard a sharp intake of his breath and the cigar fell from his fin-gers.
-- I think we might employ it in getting some dinner and then, Lestrade, we will take the London fog out of your throat by giving you a breath of the pure night air of Dartmoor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for his red-nosed neighbour, the latter since the in-formation as to the identity of Rogojin hung over him, seemed to be living on the honey of his words and in the breath of his nostrils, catching at every syllable as though it were a pearl of great price.
-- he whispered at last, drawing his breath with an effort.
-- 'He has lost his breath now!'
-- Breath failed him here, and he was obliged to stop.
-- 'Then I ' He drew a long, deep breath of relief, as it seemed.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently he came to himself again, for the breath of the north wind as it played upon him gave him new life, and brought him out of the deep swoon into which he had fallen.
-- Like it or no, this is how it is decreed; for aught I care, you may go to the lowest depths beneath earth and sea, where Iapetus and Saturn dwell in lone Tar-tarus with neither ray of light nor breath of wind to cheer them.
-- As when the stars shine clear, and the moon is bright there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jutting headland but it stands out in the ineffable radiance that breaks from the serene of heaven; the stars can all of them be told and the heart of the shepherd is glad even thus shone the watchfires of the Trojans before Ilius midway between the ships and the river Xanthus.
-- I have honour from Jove himself, which will abide with me at my ships while I have breath in my body, and my limbs are strong.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, you FEEL like you are laying dead still on the water; and if a little glimpse of a snag slips by you don't think to yourself how fast YOU'RE going, but you catch your breath and think, my!how that snag's tearing along.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If I have enough breath left with which to reach that little house, I may be saved," he said to himself.
-- "Not I," stammered the Marionette, who had hardly a breath left in his whole body.
-- The Marionette heard, close behind him, the labored breathing of the beast who was fast on his trail, and now and again even felt his hot breath blow over him.
-- Only for a moment, however, for the Shark took a deep breath and, as he breathed, he drank in the Marionette as easily as he would have sucked an egg.
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