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A breather is a short stop so you can rest, especially when your body has been working hard — running, climbing, carrying boxes. You do not ‘breather’; you take a breather or have a breather. Though actually it is not only for sport. People take a breather from a long meeting, from homework, from a noisy kitchen. It is friendly, everyday English, a little informal. A five-minute breather is a very small rest, not a holiday. The -er here does not mean ‘a person who breathes’, even though -er often means that. It names the short rest itself.
喘口氣、歇口氣（不是「呼吸的人」）
原始詞典資料6 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。
breathernoun/ˈbɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
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Something or someone that breathes.
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Something or someone that breathes.
- Most of us make sense of the world through talk and sight, and breathers represent that most anxiety provoking experience, nothingness with a hint of possibility.
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A short break; a rest or respite.
- After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill.
- I took a breather and decided not to ruin my life
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA spatially localized, time-periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice.
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datedThat which puts one out of breath, such as vigorous exercise.
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engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsAn air inlet path to the crankcase
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。