| 单词 | to breathe into life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto breathe (something) into life (d) transitive. To bring (something) into (or to) a particular state by breathing. Often figurative. Chiefly in to breathe (something) into life (cf. to breathe life into at Phrases 2). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > breathe [verb (transitive)] > bring to or into state by breathing breathe1762 1762 Consolatory Epist. to Members Old Faction 75 Oh for our Shakesperian Hogarth's all-creative talents! Soon would my animating pencil breathe it into life! 1770 G. Smith Six Pastorals iii. 18 Give me thy hands, nor let me sigh in vain; Oh! let me breathe them into life again. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxxix. 44 This breathed itself to life in Júlie. 1848 Graham's Mag. Oct. 214/1 Amid all this scene of enchantment, which spread out before and around her, as if her own loveliness had breathed it into existence. 2013 R. Rowell Fangirl (2014) 99 Cath sat at the table, trying not to lean on his papers or breathe them into disorder. < as lemmas |
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