关于breath-giving air, 找到一点文献，小曼说的也有道理

链接在这里：Legitimate and Illegitimate Bonds: The Great Gat*****y

http://books.google.com/books?id=AvbMbOofm-YC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=the+young+breath-giving+air&source=bl&ots=--8NC6lLY2&sig=gQl0u-AZPfQhzdBl7xG2q_JofBo&hl=en#v=onepage&q=the%20young%20breath-giving%20air&f=true

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• 对的校长。再看pull something out of thin air 和fine health所指 -sportwoman- ♀ (1915 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 05:27:20

• my updated understanding -非文学青年- ♀ (400 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:03:28

• 刚问了一个朋友，她说就是读书累了出去呼吸新鲜空气。但她不知道是否暗喻什么，young air--好像是拟人手法 -sportwoman- ♀ (1478 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:24:13

• 哈哈，back to square one，我一开始问的时候就问的是不是指户外活动。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:28:58

• 她说pull down out of 是get hold of/to take out of / reach up -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:28:20

• 暂时理解为：有太多的书要看了，理由是（Enlearner)有太多的钱要赚了。 -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 05:56:40

• 试译so much fine health to be pulled down -聚曦亭- ♀ (287 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:33:42

• 这也是我所向往的两样事情。聚大侠的解说很有道理，多谢！ -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:38:27

• Same as I understood. Totally agreed. Thanks! -同学小薇- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:39:26

• air应该是个pun，既指空气，又指那里能够给他新生活新生命的东西. -聚曦亭- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 07:36:29

• 回复：heir? -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 08:10:43

• 谢谢分享，这样一起讨论学习收获比较大。 -EnLearner- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/12/2012 postreply 20:15:29