英语释义

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• make proud or conceited;

  "The sudden fame puffed her ego"

• a short light gust of air

• forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth;

  "he gave his nose a loud blow"

  "he blew out all the candles with a single puff"

• suck in or take (air);

  "draw a deep breath"

  "draw on a cigarette"

• breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;

  "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

• 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"

• exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

• to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

• speak in a blustering or scornful manner;

  "A puffing kind of man"

• gathered for protruding fullness;

  "puff sleeves"

• smoke and exhale strongly;

  "puff a cigar"

  "whiff a pipe"

• thick cushion used as a seat

• blow hard and loudly;

  "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

• a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

• a light inflated pastry or puff shell

• praise extravagantly;

  "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"

片语

Puff Diddy吹牛老爹

huff and puff蒸汽吞吐；咆哮；恼怒；恫吓

swan puff天鹅泡芙

cream puff懦夫；娘娘腔的男人；奶油松饼，奶油卷

cocoa puff可可松饼

puff print发泡印花

puff sleeve泡泡袖

toe puff鞋头衬

puff adder吹气蝰

orange puff橙酥饼

puff out吹灭；（使）膨胀；气喘吁吁地说

puff on（一口一口地）抽（烟斗、香烟等）

puff and blow气急

puff up使肿胀

powder puff粉扑

chromosome puff[遗]

英汉例句

• each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered witty and mirthful, such as, "how ugly you are!

  那妇人每次从他面前走过，他总吸上一口雪茄，把烟喷她，并向她说些自以为诙谐有趣的怪话，如「你多么丑！」

• torrisi, who cooked french food for four years at café boulud. 「the cream puff is one of them: totally french. but you can get it at any italian-american pastry shop.

  奶油泡芙就是个例子，完全的法国货，但是在任何一家美式意大利糕点店都能买得到。

• cloud computing is either a revolutionary it management tool or a nebulous puff of marketing hype depending on whom you ask.

  云计算是一个革命性的it管理工具还是一个含糊不清的用于营销炒作的喷云吐雾呢？ 这，就看你问谁了。

• we may find out that the dark energy vanishes in a puff of logic when we rid our mathematics of certain assumptions – such as the assumption that the universe is the same in every direction.

  当我们排除我们在数学上的某些假设——诸如：假设宇宙在任意一个方向上都是相同的，我们会发现：暗能量在逻辑上成为泡影（“vanishesinapuffoflogic」亦译：按逻辑的喷团消失——译者）。

• the same muscles puff up the feathers of birds and the fur of mammals on cold days to help keep them warm.

  在鸟类中也有同样的肌肉，在冬天它使得鸟的羽毛膨胀，以达到御寒的目的。哺乳动物也通过毛发来御寒。

• wind caught the sudden puff of dust and blew it inland.

  风猛地刮起一阵灰尘，将它吹往内陆。

• after several repetitions, the animals learned to blink after hearing the noise in anticipation of the puff of air, and they timed their blinks to avoid it.

  几次重复之后，老鼠学会在听到这个声音后眨眼睛，它们预计到会有一阵气，控制好时间眨眼睛以避开这阵气体。

• barely an hour later, afternoon tea was served in my cabin – a pot of tea, cakes, and possibly the most perfect curry puff i have ever tasted, with its spicy, rich filling and flaky, moreish pastry.

  午餐过后不到一个小时，下午茶就送进我的车厢了——一壶茶、蛋糕和我尝到过的最完美的咖喱泡芙和美味而馅料充足的薄饼，令人回味无穷。

• but oswald grübel, the chief executive, dismisses that idea with a puff of cigar smoke.

  但是首席执行官oswald grubel在一阵雪茄烟雾中舍弃了（被并购）这个主意。

• when a puff of wind ruffles the surface, wavelets disturb the surface and the reflections disappear.

  一阵风掠过水面，微波打乱了水面，倒影也不见了。

• basking in the glow of the bright supergiant star rigel, the witch head nebula trails like a puff of smoke through the eridanus constellation about 700 light years away.

  在明亮的超巨星参宿七的照耀下，女巫头星云的尾部就像一阵烟，穿过700光年远的波江座。

• a puff or two and he was wide - awake.

  吸了两口烟,他完全醒明白了.

• like a puff of wholesome , blustery wind the doctor was off.

  医师象一般清新的劲风那样,飞也似地走了.

• detective thomas moore disliked the smell of latex, and as he snappedon the gloves, releasing a puff of talcum, he felt the usual twinge ofanticipatory nausea.

  莫拓森警探戴上橡胶手套，随着「啪」的一声，手套开口处喷出一股滑石粉。手套散发出的乳胶气味，让他一阵恶心。

• since time is kind of like space (the four dimensions go hand in hand), a working time machine would zoom off like a rocket rather than disappearing in a puff of smoke.

  既然时间在某种程度上象空间那样（从一维空间到四维空间都是在一起的），一部运转的时间机器就应该象一架火箭那样急剧加速飞离而不是在一阵烟雾中消失。

• to remove it, you just drag its icon off the dock and it disappears in a puff of animated smoke.

  同样地，移除该程序也只需要将图标拖出dock，它就会在一阵动画烟雾中消失。

• divers use plastic bottles to puff poisonous clouds at target species, stunning them and damaging the coral habitat.

  潜水员用塑料瓶向着要捕获的鱼类喷有毒气体，使它们昏迷过去，却也同时毁坏了它们栖息的珊瑚礁。

• one after another, each bomb shows up as a little red puff on the screen.

  一个接着一个，每一次爆炸都在屏幕上冒起一小阵红烟。

• he took a puff at his cigarette.

  他吸了一口香烟.

• this trend continues, with knee length gowns becoming the norm, and pleats, puff balls, and short bridesmaid dresses.

  随着齐膝盖的礼服、带褶皱、泡芙球状的短伴娘礼服变得十分平常，这种趋势还在持续。

• or perhaps a law case is like pastry: it needs to sit and puff itself up for a while before being rolled out.

  或者说法律案件就像糕点一样，在烤之前，面粉需要花些时间膨胀开来。

• what is presented to the public as a critical evaluation is really an elaborate puff for him and his magazine.

  公众所看到的评论界的好评实际上是对他和他的杂志的一种吹捧。

• these my lamps are blown out at every little puff of wind, and trying to light them i forget all else again and again.

  我的几盏灯都被一阵阵的微风吹灭了，为想把它们重新点起，我屡屡地把其他的事情都忘却了．

• can i tempt you with a little puff pastry?

  我能给你尝点泡芙点心吗？

• they can change colors instantly and can even produce a miniature puff of ink when they are disturbed.

  他们能迅速改变颜色并且甚至能在他们受扰时制造一阵小规模的墨迹喷发。

• the researchers played a sound and then, after a set period of time that varied between each group, blew a puff of air into the rats' eyes, making them blink.

  研究人员播放一种声音，然后隔一段时间（每组的时间长短不同），向老鼠的眼睛内吹一阵气，令它们眨眼睛。

• the magician vanished in a puff of smoke.

  魔术师在一股烟雾中突然不见了。

• he took a long puff at his rank cigar.

  他深深抽了一口臭味难当的雪茄烟.

• he took a puff on his pipe and shook his head.

  他抽了口烟斗，摇了摇头。

相似词

gasp喘气

breath呼吸，气息；一口气，（呼吸的）一次；瞬间，瞬息；微风；迹象；无声音，气音

cloud(Cloud) 克劳德（人名）

vapor使……蒸发；使……汽化

promote成为王后或其他大于卒的子

pant(Pant) （印、美、英）潘特（人名）

breathe呼吸；使喘息；流露；低声说

smoke冒烟，吸烟；抽烟；弥漫

huff生气地说；把……吹胀，吹气；发怒，激怒；蔑视；恫吓；嗅（汽油、溶剂）作为兴奋剂；（国际跳棋中）取掉（对方本可吃棋的棋子）