puff

pronunciation

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  • n.
    一阵(气味,烟雾等)
    粉扑
    酥皮点心
    夸奖,吹嘘
  • vt.
    喷出
    膨胀
    吹捧
    得意
  • vi.
    喷出
    膨胀
    夸张

Word Origin

puff 吸气,吹气,抽烟,喘气

拟声词,吸气或吐气声,引申诸相关词义。

Example

1. At home , planned cuts in welfare will take some of the puff from real incomes .
在国内,福利削减的计划将减轻实际收入的膨胀。
2. Hands trembling I lit my first cigarette in decades wheezing on the first puff .
我双手不住颤抖,平生第一次点燃了一颗烟,气喘吁吁地吸了起来。
3. And every single morning I will eat a cheese puff from the monk 's bakery by sioni cathedral . Yes , it was that good and only 20p .
每天上午我会到由西欧尼大教堂僧侣所开的面包房去买奶酪泡芙吃,那真是好吃,而且只要20便士。
4. In egypt women barely smoke ( just 0.5 % do so daily ) while female smokers in poland puff through 15.5 cigarettes a day .
埃及妇女几乎不吸烟(每日吸烟的女性比例只有0.5%),而波兰的女烟民每日吞云吐雾掉15.5只香烟。
5. Chinese journalists allege that mr. tuo secretly overhauled a new year 's editorial from the well-known southern weekly newspaper , replacing its call for greater checks on government powers with a propaganda puff piece that ran on thursday .
中国媒体从业者声称,庹震悄悄删改了知名报纸《南方周末》的一篇新年社论,将该报进一步制衡政府权力的呼声替换为一篇宣传性的吹捧文章,发表在周四出版的报纸上。

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