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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was pleasant to observe the fresh flowers in the room, the pet bird with a green bough shading his little cage, the breath of freshness and youth which seemed to rustle through the old dull house and hover round the child.
-- said Quilp, drawing in his breath with great relish as if he were taking soup, 'you and I will have such a settling presently; there's such a scratching and bruising in store for you, my dear young friend!Aha!Nelly!How is he now, my duck of diamonds?'
-- The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.
-- The landlord drew his breath hard, and looked at the owner of the dogs, who nodded and said gruffly that he remembered.
-- In the large inn-yards waiters flitted to and fro and ran against each other, horses clattered on the uneven stones, carriage steps fell rattling down, and sickening smells from many dinners came in a heavy lukewarm breath upon the sense.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff thought meanwhile, his breath almost failing him.
-- Nekhludoff felt the beating of his heart increasing and his breath failing him.
-- Osip, the sleigh-tender, ran from sleigh to sleigh, knee-deep in snow, telling of the elks that were roaming in the deep snow, nibbling the bark of aspen trees, and of the bears emitting their warm breath through the airholes of their wild haunts.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped.
-- My breath came with pain.
-- I cursed aloud, as I ran, at my confident folly in leaving the machine, wasting good breath thereby.
-- There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid journey through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence.
-- As soon as she had recovered her breath a little, she called out to the White King, who was sitting sulkily among the ashes, 'Mind the volcano!'
-- So Alice picked him up very gently, and lifted him across more slowly than she had lifted the Queen, that she mightn't take his breath away: but, before she put him on the table, she thought she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes.
-- Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away.
-- but Alice felt she could not go faster, though she had not breath left to say so.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece of incivility like tonight's, I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and routed out of this.
-- I remember his breath hanging like smoke in his wake as he strode off, and the last sound I heard of him as he turned the big rock was a loud snort of indignation, as though his mind was still running upon Dr. Livesey.
-- But he was too deep, and too ready, and too clever for me, and by the time the two men had come back out of breath and confessed that they had lost the track in a crowd, and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone bail for the innocence of Long John Silver.
-- There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside.
-- Had there been a breath of wind, we should have fallen on the six mutineers who were left aboard with us, slipped our cable, and away to sea.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed that, at the moment that the enormous narwhal had come to take breath at the surface of the water, the air was engulfed in its lungs, like the steam in the vast cylinders of a machine of two thousand horse-power.
-- Or a more convenient, economical, and consequently more probable alternative would he be satisfied to rise and take breath at the surface of the water, like a whale, and so renew for twenty-four hours the atmospheric provision?
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