中考单词易错点解析：Breath and Breathe

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　　Breath
        　　the air that you take into your lungs and send out again 呼吸的空气，气息  [名词]
        　　1. Let’s go out for a breath of fresh air.
        　　我们出去吸口新鲜空气吧。
        　　2. He caught his breath in surprise.
        　　他惊奇地屏住了呼吸。
        　　3. You can see people’s breath on a cold day.
        　　冷天能看到人们呼出的空气。
        　　4. Only in the countryside can we have a breath of fresh air.
        　　只有在郊野我们才能呼吸到新鲜的空气。
        　　Breathe
        　　to take air into your lungs and send it out again through your nose or mouth 呼吸 [动词]
        　　1. I like to breathe the fresh air in suburban places.
        　　我喜欢在郊外呼吸新鲜空气。
        　　2. Fish cannot breathe without water.
        　　鱼离开水就不能呼吸。
        　　3. I feel as if it is hard to breathe.
        　　我感到好像呼吸困难。
        　　4. To breathe the fresh air will do your lungs good.
        　　呼吸新鲜空气对你的肺是有好处的。
        　　【注意】
        　　breath和breathe都表示”呼吸”的意思，但是词性不同。breath是名词，breathe是动词。
        　　（1）The doctor asked me to take a deep breath.
        　　（2）The doctor asked me to breathe deeply.