Hold one's breath

Definition

breath /breθ/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ထြက္သက္ဝင္သက္။ ႏွာေလ။ အသက္႐ႉ။ You can see people's breath on a cold day. ❍ His breath smelt of garlic. ❍ She paused for breath, then went on speaking. (ခ) [C] (ဝင္သက္) တစ္႐ႉ၊ တစ္႐ိႈက္။ take a deep breath (ie fill one's lungs with air). ၂။ ~ of sth [sing] (ေလ) အနည္းငယ္တိုးမႈ။ There wasn't a breath of air/wind. ၃။ ~ of sth [sing] သိုးသိုး သံ့သံ့ၾကားျခင္း။ အနံ႔ထြက္ျခင္း။ အရိပ္အေယာင္ေပၚျခင္း။ a breath of scandal ❍ the first breath of spring. ေႏြဦး၏ ေဗြေဆာ္ဦးရနံ႔။ ❏ a breath of fresh air [ IDM ] ၁။ ေလေကာင္း ေလသန္႔႐ႉျခင္း။ I like to have a breath of fresh air during my lunch hour. ၂။ ရင္ေအးစရာ။ Her smile is a breath of fresh air in this gloomy office. ❏ the breath of life (to/for sb) [ IDM ] အသက္။ အသက္ ေသြးေၾကာ။ Religion is the breath of life to/for her. ❏ breath test n ယာဥ္ေမာင္းသူ၏ ေသရည္ေသာက္စားမႈကို အာမႈတ္ေလျဖင့္ တိုင္းတာျခင္း။ ❏ breathy /'breθi/ adj အသက္႐ႉသံျပင္းေသာ။ ❏ get one's breath (again/back) [ IDM ] အသက္႐ႉမွား ရာက ပံုမွန္ျပန္ျဖစ္သည္။ It took us a few minutes to get our breath back after running for the bus. ❏ hold one's breath [ IDM ] အသက္ေအာင့္ထားသည္။ How long can you hold your breath for? ❍ The crowd held its/their breath as he ran up to take the penalty kick. ❏ one's last/dying breath [ IDM ] ဘဝနိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္ခ်ိန္။ ❏ (be) out of/short of breath [ IDM ] (ေမာလြန္း၍) အသက္႐ႉမွားသည္။ We were all out of breath when we got to the top of the hill. ❏ say sth speak, etc under one's breath [ IDM ] ေလသံျဖင့္ေျပာသည္။ ‘Idiot!’ she muttered under her breath. ❏ take sb's breath away [ IDM ] (အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ ၾကည္ႏူးျခင္း ျဖင့္) အသက္႐ႉမွားသည္။ The view from the top took my breath away.

Examples

1. He could feel her cool breath on his face.
2. His breath smelt strongly of alcohol.
3. [take a breath] : She took a long slow breath to calm down.
4. [a deep breath] : Take a deep breath and dive into the water.
5. [a shallow breath] : Quick shallow breaths