give one the air

基本解释

If the air will not give way, then the power of will insures more than one pathway is offered to you then.
如果出路被阻碍，意志的力量也会为你打开更多的道路。
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But one of the most conspicuous things about America these days is that it does not take a visit from the British monarch to give the White House “an air of royalty”.
但在眼下的美国，最明显的情况之一是白宫“王室风貌”并不来自英国女王的来访。
Coyly, beginning to giggle, she raised one eyelid a fraction of an inch, just enough to give her a dark blurry view of the man standing there in his white overalls holding something up in the air.
她开始羞怯的咯咯笑起来，把一只眼皮抬起一条缝，只能模模糊糊的看到他穿着白大褂站在那儿，在空中举着什么东西。

In one of the clearest indications of the passing of glasnost and the unfair, unfree quality of the balloting on the All-Union Treaty referendum, Leonid Kravchenko, chairman of the USSR State Committee for Broadcasting, declined on 15 March to give Russian President one hour of air time for an address to his fellow citizens.
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