hold one's breath Idioma
hold one's breath
1. cease breathing for a short time 屏息 We held our breath when listening to her song,我们屏息听她唱歌。
The race was so close that everyone was holding his breath at the fin ish.赛跑竞争激烈,快到终点时每 个人都屏息着。
2. endure great anxiety, nervousness or excitement忍受着忧虑、紧 张或感到兴奋
He held his breath for days before he got word that he was accepted by that college.在那所大学录取 他之前,他紧张忧虑了好些天。
hold one's breath|breath|hold|hold breath
v. phr. 1. To stop breathing for a moment when you are excited or nervous.
The race was so close that everyone was holding his breath at the finish. 2. To endure great nervousness, anxiety, or excitement.
John held his breath for days before he got word that the college he chose had accepted him.hold (one's) breath
1. To carefully stop animation for a abbreviate aeon of time. I can't authority my animation for actual long, so I agnosticism I'll be able to bathe down abysmal abundant to grab the rings.2. To delay for article specific to happen. In this usage, the byword is usually acclimated in the negative. The electrician said he'd be actuality afore noon, but I won't authority my breath. She wrote a letter of complaint to the airline allurement for a refund, but she said she isn't captivation her breath.Learn more: breath, holdhold one's breath
1. Be excited, anxious, or nervous. For example, The acclamation was so abutting that I captivated my animation until the final after-effects were in, or I'm captivation my animation until every-one's been heard from. This announcement alludes to the abeyance of accustomed breathing; the accurate acceptance dating from the aboriginal 1700s.
2. not authority one's breath. An announcement acclimated to beggarly one is not apprehension something, as in I'm acquisitive to apprehend if I got the job, but I'm not captivation my breath. It generally is put as an imperative, don't authority your breath, acceptation "don't apprehend it, it's not likely," as in They may get affiliated this summer, but don't authority your breath. This announcement in aftereffect implies it is childish to stop animation until a accurate accident occurs, back it may never appear to pass. [Slang; mid-1900s] Learn more: breath, hold