the sighing of sb/sth
用定冠词加 of 短语，特指某一群人或某事物发出的叹息声。
The sighing of the tired workers filled the small room.
疲惫工人们的叹息声充满了这个小房间。
叹气；叹息声
an act or instance of sighing
叹息声。
The utterance of a sigh.
The only answer was a long sighing from the tired old man.
唯一的回答是那位疲惫老人长长的一声叹息。
用法提示：sighing 在这里作可数名词，指一声叹息。
Amid the quiet room, a sudden sighing made everyone look up.
在安静的房间里，突然的一声叹息让大家抬起头来。
用法提示：sighing 作名词表示叹息声，前面用冠词修饰。
She tried to hide her disappointment, but a faint sighing escaped her lips.
她试图掩饰失望，但一声轻轻的叹息还是从嘴边溜了出来。
用法提示：sighing 作名词，指从嘴边发出的一声叹息。
用定冠词加 of 短语，特指某一群人或某事物发出的叹息声。
The sighing of the tired workers filled the small room.
疲惫工人们的叹息声充满了这个小房间。
作可数名词，前面带形容词描写叹息的声音特点，常与 rise、come 等动词搭配。
A soft sighing rose from the audience when the singer appeared.
歌手出现时，观众中响起了一阵轻柔的叹息声。
复数形式 sighings 表示多次或多人发出的叹息声，from 后接发出者。
There were sighings from the back row as the lecture dragged on.
讲座拖得很久，后排传来了几声叹息。
grammar · medium
易错句子She sighing when she saw the bill.
正确表达She was sighing when she saw the bill.
英语的 -ing 形式不能单独作谓语，进行时必须由助动词 be 加现在分词构成；汉语“她（正在）叹气”没有助动词，学习者容易直接把 -ing 形式放在主语后面，所以要在 sighing 前补出 was。
grammar · medium
易错句子She was sighing of relief.
正确表达She was sighing with relief.
表示叹气所伴随的情绪原因时，英语固定用介词 with（sigh with relief），不用 of；把汉语“因为／由于松了一口气”逐字译成 of 是常见迁移错误，改成 with 才符合搭配。
拼写和发音都与 sighing 接近（sighing 含 sigh /saɪ/，sign 读 /saɪn/），但 sign 指符号、招牌或签名，也可作动词表示签名、示意，与“叹气声”无关。
拼写只差一个字母，读音也相近，容易看错；但 singing 指唱歌这一行为或唱出的歌声，是有旋律的声音，而 sighing 指叹气时发出的那口气。
两者都是表达情绪的声音，但 groan 通常出声、低沉，多因疼痛、不满或吃力；sighing 多是轻轻呼出一口气，表示疲惫、无奈或放松。
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