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单词 live and breathe
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to live and breathe
a. to live and breathe and variants: to be alive; to exist.
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1592 G. Babington Certaine Comfortable Notes Genesis (ii.) f. 9 For before euer hee would haue anye of vs to lyue and breathe in this world, wee see, had hee not prouided..whatsoeuer might bee needefull for vs?
1615 H. Finch Expos. Song of Solomon (new ed.) (ii. 7) 18 She liues and breaths in him thorough that sweet and happy coniunction shee hath with her head.
1708 M. Hole Pract. Expos. Church-catechism 511 The Prince's Honor is the Peoples Safety..; the Commonwealth lives and breathes in him.
1867 F. B. Carpenter Inner Life Abraham Lincoln lxxix. 340 Mr. Lincoln first lived and breathed upon the world from his head and conscience.
1968 E. Humphreys in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories (1976) 332 During their working hours they lived and breathed together in a rare partnership of understanding and love.
1999 M. Imperioli From Where to Eternity (HBO TV shooting script) 9 in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) This is where the big guns live and breathe...I'm talking retro-virus. Legionnaire's, Ebola, and the Face-Eating virus; this is I.C.U.
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to live and breathe (something)
c. colloquial. to live and breathe (something) and variants: to be utterly absorbed or consumed by (a subject, activity, etc.).
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1859 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. iv. 244 We now live and breathe politics, and questions of peace and war.
1907 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Sept. 10/1 This clever actress lives and breathes each individual she portrays.
1944 U. Sinclair Presidential Agent i. ii. 43 Robbie Budd lived and breathed and ate and talked aeroplanes.
2006 Independent 12 Apr. (Property section) 23/4 He lived and breathed his job.
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