Not quite like breathing.

不太像呼吸。

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Contemplation becomes reflexive, like breathing.

沉思也变得是反射性的，就像呼吸。

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"These storms are like breathing animals," meteorologist Parrish has told me.

“这些风暴就像大声喘气的动物，”气象学家帕里什告诉我。

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Smelling the oil she has in the kitchen now is like breathing in an entire field of lavender flowers.

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I sometimes use the mantra like just breathing in the breath of God and breathing out the breath of God.

我又是也会吟颂咒语,就好像吸入上帝之气,呼出上帝之气。

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Usually with the breath, because when we're breathing we're all like straightened up and not performing.

通常一切与呼吸有关，我们呼吸时,好像都紧绷身体，无法表现。

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On the Dumont, Faythe Vollrath subtly varied the tempo and rhythm of the 1728 Allemande to create a line that sounded like breathing, and Jake Street explored the stop-start comedy of the pecking chicken in "La Poule" (1728).

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Clever Iniesta, who has struggled for fitness in the past three months, then gave Spain what looked like some breathing space with a typically classy second goal, executing snappy give-and-go exchanges with first Torres and then Villa before coolly guiding the ball into Bravo's far corner with breathtaking simplicity.

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Greengrass is like a man breathing so fast that he never draws much oxygen into his lungs.

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