Picture the end of a hard run in a crowd: people are pressing in on every side, you step back half a pace, and only then can you fill your lungs. That half a pace is the whole word. It is not comfort and it is not escape; it is the smallest amount of clearance that lets you breathe. English uses that half a pace twice, once as room around your body and once as a gap in time.
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時間上的那半步
同樣是那半步，只是從身體旁邊搬到行程表上：壓力像人群一樣圍過來，期限往後挪一個月，你就得到一段能喘氣的空檔。事情還在，就像人群還在，只是暫時不貼著你。
noun · B2
A short rest, or extra time, in the middle of something hard or busy, before you have to carry on. It is enough to let you recover and think, but the work or the pressure is still waiting for you.
喘息時間
noun · B2
Enough room around you to move and breathe comfortably, instead of being pressed in by other people or by things.
活動空間