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An exhalation is the breath you send out of your mouth or nose — air, and sometimes smoke — the opposite of taking air in. Doctors measure it; yoga teachers talk about it; a story might describe 'a slow exhalation' when someone finally relaxes. The everyday verb is , or just breathe out. Exhalation is the noun, a little more formal, used when you want to name the breath itself, not just the act. Older writing also used it for steam or a smell rising from the ground, as if the earth were breathing out. That sense is rare now.
呼氣、吐氣
組成From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō, 'to breathe out, to exhale,' from hālō, 'to breathe.' Equivalent to exhale + -ation.
同家族的字
- exhalethe verb this noun is built from
- inhalethe opposite: breathe in, from the same Latin hālō, 'breathe'
- inhalationthe matching noun for breathing in
原始詞典資料3 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。
exhalationnoun/ˌɛkshəˈleɪ̯ʃən/
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The act or process of exhaling; breathing out
- short exhalations of breath
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That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam
- exhalations from the earth or flowers
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter II, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt For a week the party watched the flood, and each day it receded to a considerable extent. A thick deposit of mud was left behind, but though the sun shone out warmly no offensive exhalations arose.
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A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
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。