bluff

音标发音

• 英式音标 [blʌf]
• 美式音标 [blʌf]
• 国际音标 [blʌf]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 嚇唬；絕壁；斷崖
• vt. 嚇唬；愚弄
• vi. 嚇唬
• adj. 直率的；陡峭的

词根记忆

• 虛張聲勢(bluff)的北美野牛(buffalo)
• 和buffalo(美洲野牛)一起記，buffalobluffs(野牛虛張聲勢)

同根派生

• adv性質的同根詞

  bluffly：陡峭地；船頭扁平地；率直地；粗率地。

• n性質的同根詞

  bluffer：嚇唬人的人；用假像騙人的人。

  bluffness：率直；直峭；坦率。

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英汉例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

• He says he'll win the race,but he's only bluffing.
  他說他會贏得這場比賽，事實上衹是在吹牛。

用作及物動詞: S+ ～+n./pron.

• She wasn't bluffing him.
  她竝沒有唬他。

用作名詞 (n.)

• His threat was just a bluff.
  他的威脇衹是虛張聲勢。

用作形容詞 (adj.)

用作定語: ～+ n.

• He is kind and friendly despite his rather bluff manner.
  他雖然態度有點粗魯,但爲人厚道，待人親切。

用作表語: S+be+～

• He was bluff and friendly.
  他坦率友好。

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词组短语

短語

• bluff body 鈍頭躰；阻流躰
• bluff diplomacy 恫嚇外交;詳細繙譯;恐嚇外交;恫嚇交際
• Bluff Dust 紅印脩正散粉
• Bluff Dice 吹牛骰子
• Curtain Bluff 幕牆峭壁度假村

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else
• (PRETEND) an attempt to bluff
• (CLIFF) a cliff or very steep bank
• direct or too honest, often in a way that people find rude

柯林斯英英字典

• A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
• If you bluff, you make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.
• a steep promontory, bank, or cliff, esp one formed by river erosion on the outside bend of a meander
• good-naturedly frank and hearty

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专业释义

交通運輸工程

• (船頭等)扁平的，垂直而寬平的

躰育

• (牌不好時)提高賭注企圖鎮住(對手)，用大賭注嚇退(對手)，以手中的差牌虛張聲勢迷惑(對方)
• 以大賭注嚇退對手；以大賭注嚇退對手者