- 1吐氣、呼氣（呼吸的「呼」）。瑜伽課上老師說的「吐氣」就是這個字。注意：中文的「呼吸」是一整組動作，exhale 只指出去的那一半
To exhale is to push air out of your lungs, through your mouth or nose. It is the opposite of inhale. You breathe in, you breathe out — that breathing out is exhaling. You can also exhale something that is in the air you push out: smoke, steam, a smell. "He exhaled a cloud of cigarette smoke." The word is a bit formal or technical. In everyday talk, people mostly say "breathe out": a doctor says "Take a deep breath in… now breathe out slowly," not usually "now exhale," though "exhale" does appear in yoga classes, medical writing, and sports coaching. In writing, especially stories, "exhale" is very common because it sounds controlled and deliberate — a writer will say "She exhaled slowly" to show a character calming down or giving up. That points to the other way people use it: exhaling stands for release. "I exhaled when I saw the results" means the worry left me. Some people even say "You can exhale now" to mean "you can stop worrying." It can be a noun too — "on the exhale" — but that use lives almost entirely in yoga and breathing exercises.
組成ex- (out) + Latin halare (to breathe). So: to breathe out. The Latin halare is the same root behind inhale and halitosis (bad breath).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
exhaleverb/ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/
- 1
To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out.
- 2
To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm.
- 3
To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge.
- Above was a tiled roof – though from that imperfect tiling exhaled stench and pestilence.
- Passengers on the earliest railway services would not even have enjoyed the luxury of a platform, instead having to step up onto the waiting open top wagons, where they would experience a journey that left many choking on the plumes of smoke exhaled by the leading locomotive.
- 4
To emit (a vapour, an odour, etc.).
- The earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
- Leſs fragrant Scents th' unfolding Roſe exhales, / Or Spices breathing in Arabian Gales.
- 5
To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapour.
- The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.
exhalenoun/ˌɛksˈheɪ̯l/
- 1
An exhalation.
- Now have client take slower, normal breaths through the nose and notice how the abdomen moves slightly outward with each inhale and then deflates with each exhale.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。