气息奄奄 meaning in English
one's breathing is barely perceptible.; at death's door; at the point of death; be at one's last gasp; be breathing only weakly; be dying by inches; feeble breath -- patient about to die; like a person who is sinking fast; moribund; one's breathing is thin as a thread
Examples
- He is nearing his end .
他已气息奄奄。 - He is dying .
他已气息奄奄。 - When his wife had the dying child in her arms he stopped her .
看到妻子把气息奄奄的婴儿抱在怀里，他拦住了她。 - As he was already quite worn out when we started, his condition now seemed one of great prostration .
由于出发时他就已经疲惫不堪，现在几乎是气息奄奄了。 - The van de luydens, who stood above all of them, had faded into a kind of superterrestrial twilight .
范德路易家族虽然位于前两个家族之上，其实已经日薄西山、气息奄奄了。