with bated breath

屏息凝视屏气凝神屏息静气屏息凝神

with bated breath 的定义

  1. Eagerly or anxiously, as in We waited for the announcement of the winner with bated breath. This expression literally means “holding one's breath”. Today it is also used somewhat ironically, indicating one is not all that eager or anxious. [Late 1500s] Also see hold one's breath, def. 2.

with bated breath 近义词

with bated breath

等同于 breathless

with bated breath 的近义词 8
with bated breath 的反义词 2
with bated breath

等同于 expectant

with bated breath

等同于 sotto voce

更多with bated breath例句

  1. In the next breath, however, he is decrying the press misinterpretation of his Diana script.
  2. Throughout Christmas eve and day, the world is monitoring with bated breath.
  3. He died in July after being grabbed around the throat by a cop and wrestled to ground where the breath flew out of him.
  4. “Every time you see me, you want to mess with me,” Garner exclaimed, short of breath.
  5. His breath became so strained that he was forced to quit his job as a horticulturalist for the parks department.
  6. It was one of those long moments that makes a fellow draw his breath sharp when he thinks about it afterward.
  7. While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!
  8. Cease ye therefore from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for he is reputed high.
  9. He caught his breath, he paused, then stepped within on tiptoe, and the hush of four thousand years closed after him.
  10. He is on the violin what Liszt is on the piano, and is the only artist worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with him.