waft
waft 英 [wɒft] 美 [wɑft]
vt. 使飘荡；吹送 n. 飘荡；吹拂 vi. 飘荡
进行时:wafting 过去式:wafted 过去分词:wafted 第三人称单数:wafts 名词复数:wafts
- When your grandmother cooks her famous spaghetti sauce, many wonderful smells may waft from the kitchen. In other words, the air will gently carry this familiar aroma throughout the house.
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- vt. 使飘荡；吹送
- n. 飘荡；吹拂
- vi. 飘荡
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1. In the evenings, all manner of food smells waft down the corridors — stir-fried pork and tofu and greens.
到晚上，各种饭菜的气味飘荡在走廊——有炒肉、豆腐和绿叶菜。
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2. I opened the plastic boxes that I'd carried, sealed, all the way from London, and the stench of farmhouse cheeses began to waft across the room.
我打开了一个从伦敦带来的密封塑料盒，一时间，农场自制奶酪特有的臭味开始在房间里飘荡。
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3. Bustling, small streets are crammed with shops that sell everything from jade ashtrays to Mao watches, while enticing smells waft out from restaurants and side-street barbecues.
熙熙攘攘的狭窄街道挤满了商店，这些商店从碧玉烟灰缸到毛氏手表无所不卖，诱人的香味从饭店和街边的烧烤摊飘出。
- waft (v.) c. 1500, transitive, "to move gently" (through the air), probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, ultimately from wachten "to guard" (perhaps via notion of a ship that guards another as it sails), related to waken "rouse from sleep," from Proto-Germanic *waht-, from PIE root *weg- "to be strong, be lively." Possibly influenced by northern dialect waff "cause to move to and fro" (1510s), a variant of wave. Intransitive sense from 1560s. Related: Wafted; wafting.
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