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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Its breath is pure and healthy.
-- Amongst these specimens I will quote from memory only the elegant royal hammer-fish of the Indian Ocean, whose regular white spots stood out brightly on a red and brown ground, an imperial spondyle, bright-coloured, bristling with spines, a rare specimen in the European museums (I estimated its value at not less than L1000); a common hammer-fish of the seas of New Holland, which is only procured with difficulty; exotic buccardia of Senegal; fragile white bivalve shells, which a breath might shatter like a soap-bubble; several varieties of the aspirgillum of Java, a kind of calcareous tube, edged with leafy folds, and much debated by amateurs; a whole series of trochi, some a greenish-yellow, found in the American seas, others a reddish-brown, natives of Australian waters; others from the Gulf of Mexico, remarkable for their imbricated shell; stellari found in the Southern Seas; and last, the rarest of all, the magnificent spur of New Zealand; and every description of delicate and fragile shells to which science has given appropriate names.
-- It was not a body abandoned to the waves; it was a living man, swimming with a strong hand, disappearing occasionally to take breath at the surface.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dora drifted away at once, like a leaf lifted on a breath of wind.
-- They would only collapse when the breath left his body.
-- But this warm breath on her ears disturbed her again, kindled the old destructive fires.
-- Her warm breath playing, flying rhythmically over his ear, seemed to relax the tension.
-- And when he was kissing her, soothing her, her breath came slowly, as if she were really spent, dying.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to illtreatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, and nobody was to blame.
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