She drew her breath in with a gasp and half-rose to her feet.

她吸了一口气，半站起来。

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We realize you're being overly efficient, but half the time most people will tune out the information they don't need, so you're just wasting your breath.

我们发现，你说话的效率太高了，但有一半时间，大多数人会忽略他们不需要的信息，所以，你只是白费唇舌而已。

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"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said after catching his breath, "you scared us half to death — we thought you were a ghost!"

“哇塞，先生，”其中一人喘了口气说，“你把我们吓得半死啊，我们还以为遇上鬼了呢！”

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The British teen-ager -- the only one to know what happened before the boy was rushed to the hospital -- described her panic when the infant woke from a nap, gasping for breath with his eyes half-closed.

CNN: Au pair guilty in baby-shaking death

Last week Tanya Streeter dived into the record books by descending 400 feet into the ocean and propelling herself back to the surface, all with one very deep breath lasting three and a half minutes.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

Simdax, which Abbott had licensed from Finland-based Orion Pharmaceuticals, could potentially help doctors provide relief a million-and-a-half times per year as patients suffer from heart failure that makes them extremely sick and short of breath.

FORBES: Open Questions For Heart Failure Drugs