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whiff
释义
- n.
- 一点儿气味；一股气味；轻微的迹象（或感觉）；一点点
- v.
- 有臭味；发臭；挥空棒（击球未中）
- 网络
- 一吹；吹送；一阵香气
展开详细释义
v.
1.轻轻地吹;吹送;喷送;发出一阵(香气);抽吸
2.垂饵于水面钓鱼
3.【棒球,高尔夫】(使)击球失败
n.
1.(风、烟等的)一吹,一喷,一冒;(香烟的)一口;一阵香气
2.挥空棒
3.一点点
4.吹气
5.轻结构艇
6.三击不中出局
7.〔英国〕泰晤士河上的一种轻艇
8.【棒球,高尔夫】击球不中[失败]
9.【商业】小雪茄烟
10.【鱼类】一种比目鱼
词形变化
复数：whiffs 现在分词：whiffing 过去分词：whiffed
在例句中理解 31 句
Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings.
Facebook有着简洁的设计，并且给人一种漂亮的、高档的感觉，这也是常春滕盟校一直坚持的方向。
She is let out of her protective cage once a year, for a whiff of fresh air.
她每年能从保护罩中出来一次，呼吸一下新鲜空气。
The only whiff of dodginess about the place is the city mayor's statement that it had been operating without some of the necessary permits.
市长声明说这家赌场一直都在无证经营。就所在位置来看，它似乎根本不像一家简单的娱乐场所。
She said although I wore some cologne, she could still vaguely smell a scummy whiff out of me.
她说虽然我身上喷了古龙水，但她还是能隐约闻到一股人渣味儿。
Astronomy may be hard science, but there's always been a whiff of Disney about it too.
尽管归属硬科学，但天文学里总有一些迪斯尼般的奇幻存在。
Keep in mind that no matter how much care you take to avoid the whiff of spam, there's a chance that some of your recipients will complain.
请记住，无论你多么小心地在避免（你的电子邮件）带上垃圾邮件的味道，总是难免遭到少数收件人的抱怨。
So it was with education in mind -- education with a whiff of indoctrination -- that I wanted them to see a woman give birth.
所以这是一种心理教育——点滴教化——我想要她们目睹一个女人生产的景象。
The whiff of racism is all the more disturbing because in most other respects Australia seems rather free of xenophobia.
因从其他许多方面看来澳洲相当的不排外，种族歧视的迹象愈加让人不安。
Critics of the war in Afghanistan (and perhaps even its supporters) will detect at least a whiff of jingoism in the game.
阿富汗战争的批评者（也许甚至包括支持者）将会在游戏中发现至少一点沙文主义的痕迹。
Unpleasant whiff aside, the tours have proved popular and at least two new operators have started up in recent months.
尽管气味不佳，但事实证明这一旅程很受欢迎，至少两家新公司在最近几月开张了。
I knew the soup had a whiff of controversy around it, but I hadn't yet formed a personal policy, so I gave it a try.
我知道这道汤羹有很多争议，但我自己却还未形成明确的立场，所以决定尝试一把。
For her younger brother, the whiff of danger was a bonus: "It's really cool being in a place with tanks. "
对她的弟弟来说，冒一点险得到了回报，“能在有坦克的地方照相真酷，”他说。
It was Hillary Clinton, ironically, who gave the first whiff of this new reality on her first trip abroad as secretary of state in February.
具有讽刺意味的是，最早让人们感受到这种新现实的，是2月首次以国务卿身份出访的希拉里-克林顿（HillaryClinton）。
The Coynes' marriage has a whiff of a phantom variable that the matching algorithms don't seem to take into account: fate.
科因的婚姻有一点捉摸不定的变数，配对规则看起来也不能把它记录其中：命运。
Turns out, a whiff of sweat has the ability to turn a frog into a prince.
原来，一股汗味儿就能使青蛙变王子。
When an elephant gets a whiff of something interesting, it sniffs the air with its trunk raised up like a submarine periscope.
大象闻到一些感兴趣的味道，它就闻着那个味道翘起鼻子就像潜艇望远镜。
like the whiff of a good smell to a ming too troubled to really smell it. . .
如雪茄的一个良好的气味了明太麻烦真正去味道它…
All satin and glossy wood panels, the living room has a modern, masculine flair with just a whiff of decadence.
木质墙板如绸缎般光滑，客厅里洋溢着一种现代的男性风格，其中掺杂着些许颓废的气息。
To add to their misery, each day seems to bring a new study showing how vile and dangerous even a whiff of cigarette smoke can be.
令他们的不幸雪上加霜的是，似乎每天都有一个新的研究表明，哪怕是抽一口烟都是多么令人厌恶和对自己危险。
As she stepped outside for a whiff of fresh air, she noticed the gardener trimming the shrubs.
当她散步到外头来呼吸一点新鲜的空气时，注意到有个园丁正在修剪灌木。
Rosalie: (Sighs) Get a whiff of that. (Singsong) Here comes the human.
罗莎莉：（叹气）：闻一下那个气味（唱歌）。来了人类。
Something good must be cooking; I got a whiff of it through the window.
一定在烹制什么美味，我透过窗子闻到一阵香味。
And for now the regime in Pyongyang has kept the country hermetically sealed to any whiff of rebellion.
朝鲜政府暂时将整个国家与外界完全隔绝，从而避免了任何叛乱行为。
When they turned off the machine, a whiff of air escaped from his lungs, and he didn't move again.
当他们拔掉呼吸器，一股空气从他肺里溜走，他不再动弹。
another whiff is called humanism or irrational doctrine ideological tended.
另一股叫人本主义思潮或非理性主义思潮。
As she walked past, I caught a whiff of her perfume.
当她走过时，我闻到了她身上的香水味。
Most welcome of all, there was a return to music, introduced gently, so as not to bear the faintest whiff of popery .
最受人欢迎的是，人们逐渐回归音乐，这样就可以免受天主教会制度的影响。
A whiff of ether will put you out in a few seconds.
一剂乙醚几秒钟后就会使你失去知觉。
Its creators, back on Earth, will be straining to see if that air carries a whiff of methane.
它返回地球时，它的设计者会看一下它收集的压缩空气里是否含有甲烷。
Here are a few ailments they've gotten a whiff of so far.
以下是目前为止，他们能闻到的一些疾病。
He caught a whiff of her perfume.
他闻到了她身上的一丝香水味。