Respire

(verb.) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide.

(verb.) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety.

整理:劳埃德

• In the Hydra, the animal may be turned inside out, and the exterior surface will then digest and the stomach respire. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• After he had been in the box an hour and a q uarter, he respired twenty quarts of pure nitrous oxide. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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