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The air that moves in and out of your body when you breathe — one quiet pulse of air. Everything else is either that same air thought of as tiny and faint, or a fixed phrase built on what your breathing is doing at a moment (held, caught, wasted, taken away).
可以想成你呼吸時進出身體的那口氣——一下安靜的氣流。其他意思要嘛是把這口氣想得很微小很淡（一絲氣息、一點風），要嘛是…更多收起
可以想成你呼吸時進出身體的那口氣——一下安靜的氣流。其他意思要嘛是把這口氣想得很微小很淡（一絲氣息、一點風），要嘛是抓住「你此刻呼吸的狀態」做成固定說法（憋著、喘回來、白費、被奪走）。原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
breathnoun/bɹɛθ/
- 1
The act or process of breathing.
- I could hear the breath of the runner behind me.
- The child's breath came quickly and unevenly.
- 2
A single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air.
- I took a deep breath and started the test.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
- 3
Air expelled from the lungs.
- I could feel the runner's breath on my shoulder.
- 4
A rest or pause.
- Let's stop for a breath when we get to the top of the hill.
- 5
A small amount of something, such as wind, or common sense.
- Even with all the windows open, there is hardly a breath of air in here.
- If she had a breath of common sense, she would never have spoken to the man in the first place.
- 6
obsoleteFragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
- Autumn[…]Who wakenest with thy balmy breath
- the breath of flowers
- 7
obsoleteGentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.
- an after dinner's breath
breathadj/bɹɛθ/
- 1
human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsvoiceless, surd; contrasting with voice (breath sounds, voice sounds)
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。