鼻息 (bí xī) — breath (from the nose)
Definition
Literary word for 'breath from the nose', most often used in the idiom 仰人鼻息 — to live at someone else's mercy, depending on their every breath.
noun
breath (from the nose)
Examples
- ，鼻息。Tā shuì dé hěn chén, bí xī jūn yún ér huǎn màn.He slept deeply, his breath even and slow.
- 鼻息。Tā jǐn zhāng dé lián bí xī dōu bǐng zhù le.She was so nervous that she even held her breath.
- ，鼻息，。Zài nà ge gōng sī gōng zuò, tā zhǐ néng yǎng rén bí xī, háo wú zì zhǔ quán.Working at that company, he could only depend on others and had no autonomy at all.
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