whiff
whiff 英 [wɪf] 美 [hwɪf, wɪf]
vt. 吸；喷出 n. 一点点；单人小划艇；琴鲆属鱼；吸气或吹气 vi. 喷气；垂钓；轻吹
进行时:whiffing 过去式:whiffed 过去分词:whiffed 第三人称单数:whiffs 名词复数:whiffs
- 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.
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- vt. 吸；喷出
- n. 一点点；单人小划艇；琴鲆属鱼；吸气或吹气
- vi. 喷气；垂钓；轻吹
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1. If that idea has the whiff of failure about it, well, sniff again.
如果说这个主意有一点点失败之处的话，是呀，再闻一闻吧。
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2. Or tried take a whiff of any of the vegetation that surrounds us everyday?
或者试着去吸一口我们周围植物的清新的气息吗？
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3. This I could see faintly shining as I raised or lowered the cigarette; and at each whiff the inside of my hand was illuminated, and became for a second the highest light in the landscape.
当我拿起或者放下我的烟卷时，都可以看到它微弱的反光；我每吸一口，我的手掌都会被照亮，我的戒指便是此情此境里除了星星以外最亮的光了。
- whiff (n.) 13c., weffe "foul scent or odor," of imitative origin. Modern form became popular late 16c. with tobacco smoking, probably influenced by whiffle "blow in gusts or puffs" (1560s). The verb in the baseball slang sense "to swing at a ball and miss" first recorded 1913.
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