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Whiff Caught Past Small N Count 可数名词   [Usu Sing

英语单词 whiff
英美音标 英 [wɪf] 美 [wɪf]
中文释义 n.一吹;一阵香气;香烟的一口
v.轻轻地吹;吹送;使被三阵出局
英语例句 (1) I caught a whiff of perfume as she passed me.
(2) A whiff of gas will quickly put you off.
中文例句 (1) 她从我身边走过时,我闻到一股香水味。
(2) 你吸一口麻醉气体马上就会进入麻醉状态。
vocabulary简明 A whiff can mean the hint of something you smell. When you drive past the sewage treatment plant and suddenly roll up your car windows, it's usually because you've gotten a whiff of the plant's special odor.
vocabulary扩展 Whiff can be used as either a noun or verb, and it implies a brief or small puff or sniff. A person can have "a whiff of the exotic," which means they are living like the rest of us, but there is a little something about them that seems foreign or different. Sometimes, of course, odors are so overpowering that a small sniff is all you need: "Take a whiff of this," your friend might say to you, holding out a carton of sour milk. In that case, one whiff will be more than enough.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]一阵(气味) If there is a whiff of a particular smell, you smell it only slightly or only for a brief period of time, for example as you walk past someone or something.
  [usu sing]
  • He caught a whiff of her perfume.

    他闻到了她身上的一股香水味。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]轻微的征兆;迹象 A whiff of something bad or harmful is a slight sign of it.
  [usu sing]
  • Not a whiff of scandal has ever tainted his private life...

    他的私生活没有爆出过一丁点儿的丑闻。

  • The TV show had the whiff of hypocrisy and pomposity.

    这个电视节目有些伪善和夸耀的嫌疑。

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