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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Agamemnon answered, 'Nestor, son of Neleus, hon-our to the Achaean name, it is I, Agamemnon son of Atreus, on whom Jove has laid labour and sorrow so long as there is breath in my body and my limbs carry me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his ill-shaped mouth fell apart, and a glairy foam lay on his lips, and his breath came hoarse and noisy.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt my breath going, for I was quite out of training; it whooped as I drew it, and I felt a pain like a knife at my side.
-- At last for want of breath I paused.
-- I'll tell you, when my breath comes.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat's claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
-- Then something began to hurt Mowgli inside him, as he had never been hurt in his life before, and he caught his breath and sobbed, and the tears ran down his face.
-- Mowgli made no objection, and the monkeys gathered by hundreds and hundreds on the terrace to listen to their own speak-ers singing the praises of the Bandar-log, and whenever a speaker stopped for want of breath they would all shout together: 'This is true; we all say so.'
-- And so they ran, stammering with terror, to the walls and the roofs of the houses, and Baloo drew a deep breath of relief.
-- It was then that Mowgli made up a song that came up into his throat all by itself, and he shouted it aloud, leaping up and down on the rattling skin, and beating time with his heels till he had no more breath left, while Gray Brother and Akela howled be-tween the verses.
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：
-- It was met by Chingachgook, whose knife passed across its throat quick-er than thought, and then precipitating the motions of the struggling victim, he dashed into the river, down whose stream it glided away, gasping audibly for breath with its ebbing life.
-- demanded Hawkeye, sternly; 'Tis a charge of powder saved, and ammunition is as precious now as breath to a worried deer!Freshen the priming of your pistols the midst of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.'
-- Hardly a breath was drawn by those he left behind, until they caught a glimpse of his head emerging for air, far down the current, when he again sank, and was seen no more.
-- 'He will make the fire-water from the islands in the salt lake flow before the wigwam of Magua, until the heart of the Indian shall be lighter than the feathers of the humming-bird, and his breath sweeter than the wild honeysuckle.'
-- The savages were so near, that the least motion in one of the horses, or even a breath louder than common, would have betrayed the fugitives.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them.
-- And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy- pigglely, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark!I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
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：
-- She fled, swift of foot and desperate, but he gained on her step by step, till she felt his hot breath on her neck; and still she fled silently, and silently he pursued, and when at last he seized her was it terror that thrilled her heart or was it ecstasy?
-- He remembered how often he had waited for a minute or two on the landing to get his breath after the ascent, and how absurdly his impatience to see Blanche had taken it away again.
-- It took his breath away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pencroft knelt in his turn beside the engineer, he also heard a throbbing, and even felt a slight breath on his cheek.
-- Lake Grant was viewed from thence in all its extent, and no breath disturbed the surface of its waters.
-- And Herbert, swelling out his cheeks, blew so much and so well into the tube-taking care to twirl it round at the same time that his breath dilated the glassy mass.
-- "Oh Pencroft," said Spilett, recovering his breath at last, "a truce for one moment.
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