息遣い

いきづかい【息遣い】

breathing

〖U〗呼吸

heavy breathing 激しい息づかい.

▲give a snort of impatience いらいらして荒い息づかいをする.

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いきづかい【息遣い】

breathing; respiration.

●苦しそうな息遣い painful breathing; breathing with difficulty.

●息遣いが荒い[せわしい] breathe heavily [hard]; be gasping for breath

・彼女の息遣いが聞こえるほどの距離だった. I was near [close] enough to hear her breathe [breathing].

●彼女の息遣いは浅くて速かった. Her breathing was [breaths were] shallow and rapid.

・この肖像画からはモデルの息遣いまで伝わってくるようだ. The portrait is so lifelike that you can almost see the model breathe [the subject seems to be breathing].