| 单词 | puff |
| 释义 | puff I. intransitive verb 1. a. < a fresh salt breeze puffs across the bay > < the gatherer puffs lightly into the blowpipe to shape the molten glass > < the dust almost puffed out of the door when we opened it — Molly L. Bar-David > b. < was puffing heavily when he reached the top > c. < puff at a pipe > < the kettle puffing, and the tea all set out — Adrian Bell > < snorting, puffing river steamers that churned their way to the city — American Guide Series: Maine > d. < changes in temperature or humidity may cause some ascomycetes to puff > 2. < a puffing turkey-cock of a man, full of himself and of false patriotism — E.S.Morgan > < it is … to defy Heaven to puff at damnation — Robert South > 3. a. < a sprained ankle puffs up > b. < the spin chute puffs out behind the hurtling plane > < flak was puffing all around — F.V.Drake > < twice, little spot fires puffed up on the wrong side — G.R.Stewart > c. < a considerable amount of puffing … was part of the sales talk that induced the marriage — Morris Ploscowe > specifically < puffing … is well understood by a public immunized to the superlatives of the marketplace — F.V.Harper > transitive verb 1. a. < people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face — W.S.Gilbert > < a brisk breeze puffs the clouds away > < bullets … puffed up the white dust all around him — A. Conan Doyle > b. < puff out a candle > c. (1) < “wait for me,” he puffed, doing his best to keep up with the bigger boys > (2) < twisted the rope round faster and faster, until he was puffed — Dannie Abse > d. < found that when people puff two cigarettes alternately, they cannot in fact tell the difference between them — Martin Mayer > e. < neck, still white with the powder she had puffed there after her bath — Wright Morris > 2. a. (1) < green lizards puff out their throats like thin red bubbles — Marjory S. Douglas > < puffed out his chest and pranced around the chair — Daniel Curley > (2) < the puffed and tufted furniture — Norman Mailer > < the manuscript of her work had been submitted … for this one to prune and that one to puff out — Wilfred Partington > specifically b. (1) < public acclamation puffs his ego > < might have become morally puffed up if a healthy corrective had not been administered — A.W.Long > (2) < audience puffs itself to storm the gates — D.M.Friedenberg > c. < hit too many homers and people start puffing you up — Willie Mays > < do not puff impossible trash, but they do let people … know what is interesting and worth reading — Mary C. Fair > specifically < traders … still puff their goods as if the whole aim of their toils were just to achieve a single transaction — C.E.Montague > II. 1. a. < storm which set out as a mere puff of wind thousands of miles away — Carey Longmire > specifically < when you reef for a land breeze study the duration of the puffs — Peter Heaton > b. < let out an irrepressible little puff of laughter — Marguerite Steen > < listen to the puff of a distant locomotive > c. < let ten puffs of his pipe eddy away — F.M.Ford > < sat back … in a fluff of soft fur and a puff of expensive scent — Anne Panish > d. < a clear blue sky with only a few puffs of cloud sailing in it — Clifton Cuthbert > < can all be blown away with one puff of clear common sense — Stuart Hampshire > e. 2. a. (1) < corn puff > < potato puff > especially (2) < brandy puff > < gin puff > b. (1) (2) 3. a. b. (1) < a dainty puff of sleeve at the shoulder > < great puffs of blue hydrangea blossoms — Placide Martin > < bird didn't even have time to get its wings open before pellets ripped it into a puff of feathers — Barnaby Conrad > (2) (3) (4) c. 4. a. < showing off for each other … like housewives putting on a puff at a party — John Steinbeck > b. archaic 5. < pleasant letters came to me on my birthday … and one or two puffs in the newspapers — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < interested in political puffs, not news — W.A.Swanberg > < the play got puffs from several critics > specifically < puffs … with which booksellers sometimes embroider their catalogs — John Carter > < firm does not favor … publicity stunts or puffs for goods on sale — Persuasion > III. 1. < puff sleeve > 2. < aren't all autobiographies essentially puff jobs — Thomas Goldwasser > IV. — used to express disdain or to indicate transience V. |
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