英语词汇“to come up for air”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. to come up for air: to surface from underwater in order to take a breath. Also figurative: to take a break from an absorbing, intensive, or physically demanding activity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > rise to the surface > of submerged body

emerge1640

to come up for air1749

1749 T. Salmon New Geogr. & Hist. Gram. 182 After the Whale has run some hundred Fathoms deep, he is forced to come up for Air.

1835 Lapland & its Rein-deer viii. 115 The animal [sc. a seal] must sometimes come up for air.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. x. 223 We have left the general dipping his nose in the brandy-and-water... He must come up for air presently.

1926 J. M. March Wild Party (1928) ii. iii. 49 Burrs and Kate lay locked In a five-minute kiss... They stirred: They unlocked: They came up for air.

1954 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 98 225 They seem to be having a very good time among themselves..and we can merely hope that they will later come up for air and tell us in a common language what it is all about.

2006 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 1 Dec. d1 They [sc. kids] swim for their lives in underwater caves, coming up for air in spaces barely large enough to draw a breath.

单词	to come up for air
释义	> as lemmas to come up for air d. to come up for air: to surface from underwater in order to take a breath. Also figurative: to take a break from an absorbing, intensive, or physically demanding activity. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > rise to the surface > of submerged body emerge1640 to come up for air1749 1749 T. Salmon New Geogr. & Hist. Gram. 182 After the Whale has run some hundred Fathoms deep, he is forced to come up for Air. 1835 Lapland & its Rein-deer viii. 115 The animal [sc. a seal] must sometimes come up for air. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. x. 223 We have left the general dipping his nose in the brandy-and-water... He must come up for air presently. 1926 J. M. March Wild Party (1928) ii. iii. 49 Burrs and Kate lay locked In a five-minute kiss... They stirred: They unlocked: They came up for air. 1954 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 98 225 They seem to be having a very good time among themselves..and we can merely hope that they will later come up for air and tell us in a common language what it is all about. 2006 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 1 Dec. d1 They [sc. kids] swim for their lives in underwater caves, coming up for air in spaces barely large enough to draw a breath. extracted from comev. < as lemmas
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