It was so hot a noon that the leaves had to gasp for breath.

那天中午，天气热得连树上的叶子也在喘气。

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The old-typed striking clock with carvings is tick-tacking with the time. It is too old to gasp for breath.

古代的雕花自鸣钟，滴答滴答地赶着时间，它已经老得发出喘息的声音来了。

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Present I, have many matters to have as if every day to think, pondered sometimes the matter presses me not to gasp for breath.

现在的我，仿佛每天都有好多事情要想，思考的事情有时候压得我喘不过气。

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In heart failure, a weakly pumping heart allows fluid to build up until patients gasp for breath.

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Cases of the bacterial disease pertussis, nicknamed for the "whoop" sufferers sometimes make as they gasp for breath after a long coughing spell, have risen from 1, 010 in 1976 to over 25, 000 today, according to the CDC.

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