bluff
bluff 英 [blʌf] 美 [blʌf]
n. 吓唬；绝壁；断崖 vt. 吓唬；愚弄 vi. 吓唬
进行时:bluffing 过去式:bluffed 过去分词:bluffed 第三人称单数:bluffs 名词复数:bluffs 比较级:bluffer 最高级:bluffest
- Bluff can mean a high cliff, or it can describe a person who is abrupt in manner. The most common usage of bluff is as a verb meaning to pretend. If you bluff at cards, you are pretending to have a better hand than you do.
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- n. 吓唬；绝壁；断崖
- vt. 吓唬；愚弄
- vi. 吓唬
- adj. 直率的；陡峭的
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1. Yeah, that was like odd stuff from after bluff Limbo from '94 to '95.
对，一些古怪的素材来自94年到95年，就是《地狱边缘的绝壁》灌好以后。
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2. One of the choppers set down on the beach below them, the other on the bluff above.
有一架直升机在他们下面的海滩上降落，其余的直接降落在断崖上。
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3. Do not brag or bluff.
不要自夸和虚张声势。
- 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 broad bows and flat vertical stems. It was later extended to landscape features in North America, such as high broad banks along a shore or range of hills. Of persons, in reference to a full face, indicative of frankness and rough good humor, 1808.
- bluff (n.2) an alternative name for the game of poker, 1824; see bluff (v.). As "an act of bluffing" by 1864. To call (one's) bluff is from 1876.
- bluff (v.) 1839, "to deceive (opponents), especially by betting heavily and with a confident air on a worthless hand to make them 'fold,'" an American English poker term, perhaps from Dutch bluffen "to brag, boast," or verbluffen "to baffle, mislead." The general sense "use a show of confident assurance to deceive an opponent as to one's real resources or strength" is by 1854. Related: Bluffed; bluffing.
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