I was born where everything breathed a free breath.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Southerners shared with Northerners a faith in progress, if you breathed the air in American in the 1840s and '50s.

南方人和北方人对发展有共同的信念,十九世纪四五十年代的美国就是例子

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

They had very similar political ideologies, borne of the republicanism, they all kind of breathed in- that was breathed into them, and they inherited from the age of the American Revolution.

他们有着相似的政治理念,即共和主义,它仿佛注入了他们的思想,因为这是美国独立战争时代留下的遗产

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I hardly breathed. I held the lantern motionless.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

"I got no more money," breathed Ransie,heavily.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Researcher Katariina Kallio of the University of Turku in Finland says her study on teenagers extends previous research, which found cardiovascular damage in grown-ups who breathed in other peoples' smoke.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04