puff是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to breathe fast and with difficulty, usually because you have been exercising -- 喘气

  • He came puffing up the stairs. 他气喘吁吁地上了楼。

  • [ + speech ] "I ran all the way home," she puffed (= said while puffing). “我是一路跑回家的，”她气喘吁吁地说。

• 1 to smoke tobacco -- 吸（烟），抽（烟）

  • She was puffing on a cigarette at the time. 她当时正在吸烟。

  • He sat there, puffing away at a cigarette. 他坐在那里，抽着烟。

• 2 to blow out in clouds, or make steam or smoke do this -- 吹，喷出，冒出

  • The engine puffed a huge cloud of steam, then rolled down the tracks. 火车头喷出一大股水蒸气，沿着轨道开始移动。

  • The chimney was puffing out clouds of smoke. 烟囱向外冒出一股股的烟。

• 3 a small amount of smoke, air, or something that can rise into the air in a small cloud -- 一小口（烟雾），一小股（空气）

  • Sean blew a puff of smoke at his reflection in the mirror. 肖恩朝镜中的自己喷了一口烟。

  • He hit the ground with his stick and a puff of dust rose up into the air. 他用拐杖敲打地面，扬起一股浮尘。

• 4 a piece of food made of puff pastry filled with something sweet or with food such as cheese -- 泡夫，松饼

  • a cream/jam puff 奶油／果酱松饼

  • cheese puffs 奶酪松饼

• 5 a piece of writing or speech that praises something too much -- 吹捧文字，吹捧的言论

• 6 to be breathing with difficulty because you have been doing physical exercise -- 气喘吁吁，呼吸急促

• 7 an act of smoking -- 吸烟，抽烟

  • She took a puff on her cigarette and thought for a moment. 她抽了一口烟，沉思了一会儿。