資料來源 : pyDict
喘氣的
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pant \Pant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Panted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Panting}.] [Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF.
panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh.
akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the
nightmare.]
1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after
exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with
heaving of the breast; to gasp.
Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. --Dryden.
2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks. --Ps.
xlii. 1.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose. --Pope.
3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate,
or throb; -- said of the heart. --Spenser.
4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic]
The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies
upon the trees. --Pope.
資料來源 : WordNet®
panting
adj : breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: {blown}, {gasping},
{out of breath(p)}, {pursy}, {short-winded}, {winded}]
panting
n 1: breathing heavily (as after exertion) [syn: {heaving}]
2: any fabric used to make trousers [syn: {trousering}]