breathing space
英 [ˈbriːðɪŋ speɪs]
美 [ˈbriːðɪŋ speɪs]
n. 短暂休息; 喘息时间
Collins.1
牛津词典
noun
- 短暂休息;喘息时间
a short rest in the middle of a period of mental or physical effort
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR (两项活动之间)喘息的时间
Abreathing spaceis a short period of time between two activities in which you can recover from the first activity and prepare for the second one.- Firms need a breathing space if they are to recover...
这些公司需要短暂休整才能恢复元气。 - We hope that it will give us some breathing space.
我们希望这能给我们以喘息的机会。
- Firms need a breathing space if they are to recover...
英英释义
noun
- sufficient room for easy breathing or movement
- moved to the country to find breathing room
- a short respite
双语例句
- There were some who believed that a breathing space from structural reform was required after the Koizumi administration.
一些人认为,小泉政府当政期后,应有一段停止结构性改革的休息期。 - Lower tensions with Taiwan have also given the Chinese military a little breathing space to manoeuvre elsewhere.
在与台湾的紧张关系缓和后,中国军方得以取得一些喘息空间,并在别处活动。 - Both the US and the eurozone seem, for now, to be between crises. Investors should use this breathing space to study the bigger picture.
美国与欧元区似乎都暂时渡过了危机。投资者应利用这一喘息之机,研究一下更宏观的局势。 - At any rate, chance had given him some breathing space.
无论如何,机会给了他一定的喘息空间。 - Some breathing space is needed to try to renew a dialogue ahead of the games.
若想在奥运会之前重启对话,需要一些考虑问题的空间。 - This way, the garbage collector will obtain more breathing space, decreasing the probability of a full GC.
通过这种方式,垃圾收集器将获得更多空间并减少完全GC的可能性。 - This would give banks breathing space to meet capital standards while the housing market stabilised.
这将给银行带来喘息空间,让它们达到资本金要求,也让房市趋稳。 - The enemy should be permitted no breathing space.
不要使敌人获得喘息的时间。 - They provided much-needed breathing space for a country hit by civil war and unrest.
他们为这个饱受内战和动乱之苦的国家提供了一个极需休养生息的空间。 - WaMu still has some financial breathing space before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation feels compelled to act.
在联邦存款保险公司(fdic)感到必须要采取行动前,wamu在财务方面仍有一些喘息的空间。