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exhaling

/eks-heyl, ek-seyl/US // ɛksˈheɪl, ɛkˈseɪl //UK // (ɛksˈheɪl, ɪɡˈzeɪl) //

呼气,吐气,呼出

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    ex·haled, ex·hal·ing.

    • : to emit breath or vapor; breathe out.
    • : to pass off as vapor; pass off as an effluence.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·haled, ex·hal·ing.

    • : to breathe out; emit: to exhale a sigh.
    • : to give off as vapor: The engine exhaled steam.
    • : to draw out as a vapor or effluence; evaporate.

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Examples

  • The flu-covered immune rodents were not exhaling virus into the air.

  • The larger respiratory droplets that are known to spread the coronavirus are larger bits of spit and mucus that a person propels outward when they forcefully exhale.

  • Filters in the tubing keep each patient’s exhaled air from infecting others.

  • Between 30 and 40 percent of the people with coronavirus infections exhaled viruses if they wore no mask.

  • Breathing in smaller airborne droplets exhaled or coughed out may also cause infection.

  • Changing the way you inhale and exhale can help you feel more relaxed, energized, or focused.

  • Then, exhale through a slightly open mouth as you count to four.

  • Like a gangster shooting in a Hays Code era motion picture, the inhale and the exhale are shown in separate shots.

  • Mom drew deeply on her cigarette, fingers shaking on the exhale.

  • Silently count to five on each inhale and exhale; continue for five to 15 minutes.

  • Nigel's enthusiasm seemed almost visibly to exhale from the paper as Isaacson held the letter in his hands.

  • Smoking was called drinking tobacco, as the fashionable method was to "put it through the nose" or exhale it through the nostrils.

  • The kitchen was so close to the living rooms that, at dinner-time, the whole house seemed to exhale a smell of roast mutton.

  • That organ has only to exhale, in its degree, a fostering tropic air in order to produce complications almost beyond reckoning.

  • As soon as conscious breathing was necessary it was my custom deliberately to inhale on one step and exhale on the next.