| 正面 | 7982.bluff 英 [blʌf]美 [blʌf]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 谐音“不拉风”---把他推到悬崖边吓唬他，不拉风才怪！2. [巧记]谐音：“布老虎”→虚张声势3. 人间净土新西兰——陆地的尽头布拉夫（Bluff）4. blow => bluff.n. 吓唬；绝壁；断崖vt. 吓唬；愚弄vi. 吓唬adj. 直率的；陡峭的 例句： 1. He tried to bluff his way through another test and failed it.他试图再次在考试中蒙混过关，但却露馅了。 bluff 吹牛词源同blow. 或直接来自拟声词。 bluffbluff: English has two words bluff, one or perhaps both of them of Dutch origin. The older, ‘hearty’ [17], originally referred to ships, and meant ‘having a flat vertical bow’. This nautical association suggests a Dutch provenance, though no thoroughly convincing source has been found. The sense ‘flat, vertical, (and broad)’ came to be applied to land features, such as cliffs (hence the noun bluff ‘high steep bank’, which emerged in America in the 18th century).The word’s metaphorical extension to people was at first derogatory – ‘rough, blunt’ – but the more favourable ‘hearty’ had developed by the early 19th century. Bluff ‘deceive’ [19] was originally a US poker term. It comes from Dutch bluffen ‘boast’, the descendant of Middle Dutch bluffen ‘swell up’.bluff (v.)1839, American English, poker term, perhaps from Dutch bluffen "to brag, boast," or verbluffen "to baffle, mislead." An identical word meant "blindfold, hoodwink" in 1670s, but the sense evolution and connection are unclear; OED calls it "one of the numerous cant terms ... which arose between the Restoration and the reign of Queen Anne." Extended or figurative sense by 1854. Related: Bluffed; bluffing.bluff (n.1)"broad, vertical cliff," 1680s, from bluff (adj.) "with a broad, flat front" (1620s), a sailors' word, probably from Dutch blaf "flat, broad." Apparently a North Sea nautical term for ships with flat vertical bows, later extended to landscape features.bluff (n.2)1844 as an alternative name for poker; from bluff (v.). As "an act of bluffing" by 1864." |