| 釋義 |
奄奄一息yǎn yǎn yī xīalmost dead; at one’s last gasp; barely breathing; be dying; be on one’s death-bed (/last legs); breathe one’s last; have only a faint breath of life left; one’s life might flicker out at any moment; on the brink (/eve/verge) of death; on the point of dying; with scarcely a breath left
? 賈母～的，微開雙目，說： “我的兒，不想還見的著你！”(《紅樓夢》1356) The Lady Dowager,apparently at her last gasp,feebly opened her eyes and quavered，“My son,I never thought to see you again!”/他只剩下～，身上、頭部和右手被砍傷。(姚雪垠《李自成》Ⅰ—261) The old man was dying too,covered with wounds.
? 某驚曰：“無論貧人不敢有妄想；且～，有婦何為！” (《聊齋志異·褚遂良》1647) To which he replied that a poor fellow like himself did not look for such luck as that; adding that,being then on his death bed,he would not have much occasion for the services of a wife.
? 挨到黃昏時(shí)分，老太太～，歸天去了。合家忙了一夜。(《儒林外史》38) And when evening came the old lady breathed her last,so that the whole household was in a ferment all night.
? 她望望眼前這個(gè)干癟的女人，又看看她餓得～的孩子，心里難過極了。(楊沫《青春之歌》29) Her heart sank at the sight of the gaunt mother and her starving child whose life might flicker out at any moment.
? 他被打得～，已經(jīng)不成人形了。(楊沫《青春之歌》191) He was flogged till there was barely any breath left in his body,which was bruised and battered out of all recognition. 奄奄一息at one’s last gasp;on one’s last leg 奄奄一息yǎn yǎn yī xī奄奄：呼吸十分微弱的樣子。就剩下微弱的一口氣。形容快要死了，也比喻到了危急關(guān)頭。breathe one’s last, at one’s last gasp, on the verge of death |