| 单词 | in the same breath |
| 释义 | in the same breathin the same breath a) TIME/AT THE SAME TIME (also in the next breath) used to say that someone has said two things at once that are so different from each other they cannot both be true 但紧接着，但同时〔指说自相矛盾的话〕 He criticized the film, then predicted in the same breath that it would be a great success. 他批评这部影片不好，但紧接着又说它会很卖座。 b) LIKE/SIMILARif you mention two people or things in the same breath, you show that you think they are alike or are related 和...一起〔提及，表示认为二者相似或相关联〕 I became nervous when the doctor mentioned my mother’s name and ‘cancer’ in the same breath. 当医生把我母亲的名字和“癌症”联系在一起时，我就变得紧张了。 in the same breath as/with a young poet mentioned in the same breath as T.S. Eliot 和T.S.艾略特齐名的一位年轻诗人 Examples from the Corpus breath as/with• Mostly when they are mentioned they are mentioned in the same breath as legacies.• Unpredictable recordings like this one keep him from being mentioned in the same breath as the Rippingtons.• No, perhaps you'd better not mention loo paper in the same breath as Easter eggs. → in the same breath at breath(7) |
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