Puff
[pʌf]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); 'he took a puff on his pipe'; 'he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly'.
(noun.) exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes).
(noun.) a light inflated pastry or puff shell.
(noun.) a short light gust of air.
(verb.) blow hard and loudly; 'he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain'.
(verb.) to swell or cause to enlarge, 'Her faced puffed up from the drugs'; 'puffed out chests'.
(verb.) speak in a blustering or scornful manner; 'A puffing kind of man'.
(verb.) praise extravagantly; 'The critics puffed up this Broadway production'.
(verb.) smoke and exhale strongly; 'puff a cigar'; 'whiff a pipe'.
(verb.) suck in or take (air); 'draw a deep breath'; 'draw on a cigarette'.
(verb.) make proud or conceited; 'The sudden fame puffed her ego'.
(adj.) gathered for protruding fullness; 'puff sleeves' .
桃瑞丝整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(n.) A puffball.
(n.) a kind of light pastry.
(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(a.) Puffed up; vain.
克林特手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Whiff, sudden gust.
v. n. [1]. Blow in puffs.[2]. Pant, breathe hard.
v. a. [1]. Blow.[2]. Praise (extravagantly).
手打:维吉尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Flatter, advertise, hawk, ventilate
ANT:Squash, disparage, lash, chastise, blast
杰夫編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to blow in puffs or whiffs: to swell or fill with air: to breathe with vehemence: to blow at in contempt: to bustle about.—v.t. to drive with a puff: to swell with a wind: to praise in exaggerated terms.—n. a sudden forcible breath: a sudden blast of wind: a gust or whiff: a fungus ball containing dust: anything light and porous or swollen and light: a kind of light pastry: a part of a fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle: a light ball or pad for dusting powder on the skin &c.: an exaggerated expression of praise.—ns. Puff′-add′er a large venomous African serpent; Puff′-ball a dried fungus ball-shaped and full of dust; Puff′-bird a South American bird resembling the kingfisher in form but living on insects; Puff′-box a box for holding powder for the toilet and a puff for applying it.—adj. Puffed gathered up into rounded ridges as a sleeve.—ns. Puff′er one who puffs: one who raises the prices at an auction in order to excite the eagerness of the bidders to the advantage of the seller; Puff′ery puffing or extravagant praise.—adv. Puff′ily.—ns. Puff′iness state of being puffy or turgid: intumescence; Puff′ing the act of praising extravagantly.—adv. Puff′ingly.—n. Puff′-paste a short flaky paste for pastry.—adj. Puff′y puffed out with air or any soft matter: tumid: bombastic: coming in puffs.—Puff up (B.) to inflate.
弗雷迪手打
例句/造句/用法:
- There was pastry upon a dish; he selected an apricot puff and a damson tart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- George said, with a puff of his cigar, which went soaring up skywards. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I light it--draw one puff--breathe the smoke out--there it goes--it's Dolls! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He could only bite his nails and puff away to the next Defaulter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I was smoking a big cigar, and when a man looked in I would give a big puff, and every time they saw that they would go away and begin again. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr Pancks worked his way in, came alongside the desk, made himself fast by leaning his arms upon it, and started conversation with a puff and a snort. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth, and lies all up like a puff? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- As she entered and closed the door on herself, he sank down in a chair, and gazed and sighed and puffed portentously. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Karkov, a man of middle height with a gray, heavy, sagging face, puffed eye pouches and a pendulous under-lip called to him in a dyspeptic voice. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Mr. Farebrother puffed a few moments in silence, Lydgate not caring to know more about the Garths. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And this, said he, dandling my hands up and down in his, as he puffed at his pipe,--and this is the gentleman what I made! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They ain't Pills, or Hair-Washes, or Invigorating Nervous Essences, to be puffed in that way! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I listened with amazement to this explanation, which Holmes delivered between the puffs of his cigarette. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Then he would take another half-dozen puffs with an air of profound meditation and look at them again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The ribbon, flourishing in puffs and bows about the head, was of the sort called love-ribbon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A breeze from the north drove little puffs of white cloud across an ultramarine sky, with a bright sea running under it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- If the disk turns fast enough, the puffs blend into a musical sound, whose pitch rises higher and higher as the disk moves faster and faster, and produces more and more puffs each second. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- She began to saunter about the room, examining the bookshelves between the puffs of her cigarette-smoke. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Does your qualification lie in the superior knowledge of men which accepts, courts, and puffs this man? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In 1813 Puffing Billy was built by Wm. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Even in the neighborhood of the mines people soon grew used to seeing Puffing Billy, as the engine was called, traveling back and forth from the pit to the quay, and took it quite for granted. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But the Tug, suddenly lightened, and untrammelled by having any weight in tow, was already puffing away into the distance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then he had fallen silent, puffing thoughtfully at his cigar. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- As he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the clanging. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- You were always a noble woman, Anna, said the old man, puffing at his cigarette. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
校對:玛克辛