英语释义

1. in a nervous and excited state anticipating what will happen
They waited for the answer on their application with bated breath.

片语

wait with Bated Breath屏息以待

diving with bated breath闭气潜泳

with bated breath I lay我的呼吸在躺下时慢慢减少

listen with bated breath屏息静听

英汉例句

• are you waiting with bated breath for the outcome of a crucial process?

  你是否正在越来越虚弱的呼吸中等待着从一场残酷的进程中解脱？

• i would be waiting every day with bated breath wondering when the ax was going to fall.

  他说，「我如果犯了错，就会每天焦虑地呼吸，担心斧子什么时候会落下来。」

• the sponsor often doesn「t make up its mind whether to hold the conference again until the end of the show; and everyone waits around with bated breath to see if it will make it one more year.

  会议主办方往往在会议结束时才确定是否将再次举行会议，而每个人也在静观其变。

• i saw great opportunity ahead and started laying out my goals with bated breath .

  我看到了前方的巨大的机会，屏息以待开始设计我的目标。

• we」re all just waiting with bated breath to see what you can do around here.

  我们都在屏息以待 ，指望您在这儿大展身手咧。

• an audience of turks and kurds, gathered in erbil, iraqi kurdistan’s capital, waited with bated breath as the turkish consul-general took the stage.

  在伊拉克库尔德斯坦的首府埃尔比勒市,一群土耳其人和库尔德人聚会一处。当土耳其总领事登上讲台后，众人屏息以待。

• it's like 2007 all over again: the world is waiting with bated breath for someone to step up to apple.

  感觉就像2007年又重现了：全世界都屏息以待某个人走到苹果公司跟前。

• during the appreciation that saw the oil price roughly triple between 2004 and 2006, economists waited with bated breath for an oil-induced crash.

  在2004年到2006年之间，油价大约涨了三倍，在这期间经济学家们正密切关注着一场可能因为石油价格上升导致的经济危机。