huff
huff 英 [hʌf] 美 [hʌf]
vt. 把…吹胀；激怒；蔑视 vi. 吹气；发怒；恫吓 n. 发怒
进行时:huffing 过去式:huffed 过去分词:huffed 第三人称单数:huffs 名词复数:huffs
- If you're in a huff, you're visibly annoyed or offended. Another kind of huff is to exhale. When the Big Bad Wolf was in a huff, he threatened, "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house inI"
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- vt. 把…吹胀；激怒；蔑视
- vi. 吹气；发怒；恫吓
- n. 发怒
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1. So in the meantime Israel can only huff and puff, hoping new sanctions on Iran will do the trick.
因此在此期间，以色列只能气鼓鼓，希望对伊朗的新制裁将达到目的。
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2. 'Most people think it's in poor taste, cheesy, and some of them think it reflects poorly on Chicago, ' Mr. huff said.
哈夫说，大多数人认为它品味低俗，粗制滥造，有些人还认为它给芝加哥带来了很坏的影响。
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3. That little devil progesterone may also be affecting your lungs causing you to huff and puff on long walks up stairs even doing the dishes.
这个黄体酮小魔鬼可能还会影响到你的肺，让你在走一段长路时、上楼梯时、甚至洗碗时都会喘气不断。
- huff (n.) 1590s, "a puff of wind," also "a swell of sudden anger or arrogance," from huff (v.). To leave in a huff is recorded from 1778.
- huff (v.) mid-15c., apparently imitative of forcible exhaling. Extended sense of "to bluster with arrogance or indignation" is attested from 1590s. Related: Huffed; huffing. As a slang term for a type of narcotics abuse, by 1996. Huff cap was 17c. slang for "swaggerer, blusterer" (i.e., one with an inflated head), and was noted in 1577 among the popular terms for "strong beer or ale" (with mad dog and dragon's milk), probably because it goes to the head and huffs one's cap.
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