sniff
[snif]
vi.嗅, 嗤之以鼻, 找出
vt.嗅到, 吸入, 嗤之以鼻地说
n.嗅, 吸气, 气味
例句与用法:
"We shouldn't sniff at this opportunity--we any not get another like it."
"我们不可小看这个机会--也许我们再也找不到这样的机会了。"
His generous offer is not to be sniffed at.
对他的慷慨厚意不可嗤之以鼻。
The dog was sniffing at the lamppost.
那条狗在街灯柱旁嗅来嗅去。
词形变化:
形容词: sniffable | 名词: sniffer | 动词过去式: sniffed | 动词过去分词: sniffed | 动词现在分词: sniffing | 动词第三人称单数: sniffs |
vt.
1. 嗅, 闻
He sniffed the green tea in the cup appreciably.
他欣然闻了闻杯里的绿茶香味。
2. 用力吸; 用鼻吸(毒品)
He sniffed the fresh morning air.
他吸进早晨的新鲜空气。
3. 发觉[(+out)]
It's his job to sniff out abuses of power.
他的职责就是查究滥用权力的行为。
4. 嗤之以鼻地说
"I expected something rather nicer, " she sniffed.
"我指望的要好得多呢, "她轻蔑地说。
vi.
1. 嗅, 闻[(+at)]
The dog sniffed at the stranger.
狗闻闻那个陌生人。
2. 抽鼻涕; 鼻子发呼哧呼哧声
The boy caught a cold and was sniffing.
那男孩子得了感冒, 呼吸起来鼻子呼哧呼哧的。
3. 冷淡对待, 嗤之以鼻[(+at)]
My roommate sniffed at my idea of becoming an artist.
我的室友对我要当艺术家的想法嗤之以鼻。
4. 好奇地看
Dick sniffed suspiciously around the office.
迪克怀疑地在办公室里四处查看。
n.[C]
1. 嗅, 闻; 吸气声
He cleared his nose with a loud sniff.
他大声吸气清了清鼻子。
2. 气味
3. 嗤之以鼻
短语词组:
sniff at
1. 嗤之以鼻
You shouldn't sniff at such a good offer.
你不应该对这么好的提议嗤之以鼻。
sniff
过去式:sniffed
过去分词:sniffed
现在进行时:sniffing
名词复数:sniffs
词形变化:
形容词: sniffable | 名词: sniffer | 动词过去式: sniffed | 动词过去分词: sniffed | 动词现在分词: sniffing | 动词第三人称单数: sniffs |
词义辨析:
同义:
vt.嗅, 闻
smell
scent
inhale
同义参见:
nose
breathe
sniff[snif]vi.1.■(出声地)用鼻吸气;吸气清鼻:Blow your nose. Don't sniff!把鼻子擤干净,别呼哧呼哧的!2.■= sniffle3.■(吸着气)嗅闻:to sniff at wine闻闻酒香4.■好奇(或怀疑)地看:to sniff about四处查看5.■蔑视,嗤之以鼻 (at):He sniffed at my offer.他对我的提议不屑一顾。vt.1.■用鼻吸入;吸进:to sniff the air吸入空气to be sniffed into the cleaner被吸入吸尘器2.■嗅(或闻)…的味儿:to sniff the flowers嗅闻花香3.■发觉,察觉 (out):to sniff out a scandal察觉到一宗丑闻4.■轻蔑地说,嗤之以鼻地表示:“Take your money, ”he sniffed. “Get out!”他轻蔑地说;“拿上你的钱,滚吧!”n.1.■用鼻吸气;出声的吸气2.■用鼻吸气的声音,哧哧声3.■一次的吸入量4.■气息,气味5.■轻视,嗤之以鼻
sniffsniff[snif]vi.1.■呼呼地吸气2.■嗅3.■嗤之以鼻, 轻视(at)sniff at flowers嗅花They all had colds and were sniffing and sneezing.他们都伤风了, 呼呼喘气而且打喷嚏。
词性变化sniff[snif]vt.1.■以鼻吸气; 嗅, 闻2.■嗅到; 发觉, 怀疑3.■以轻蔑的口吻说sniff the sea air吸入海上的空气sniff a rose闻玫瑰花sniff (out) danger觉察有危险The offer is not to be sniffed at.出价还算得过去。sniff[snif]n.1.■吸; 嗅, 闻; 吸气(声)2.■嗤之以鼻3.■从鼻子吸入的东西Take a sniff at everything and distinguish the good from the bad.对任何东西都要用鼻子嗅一嗅, 鉴别其好坏。
继承用法sniffern.1.■嗅探者[器]; 检漏头; 吸气探针; 取样器; 自动投弹雷达sniffy[ˈsnifi]adj.1.■[口]傲慢的; 微臭的
verb
- [no obj.]draw up air audibly through the nose to detect a smell, to stop it running, or to express contempt
(出声地)吸气嗅,吸鼻子;嗤笑
his dog sniffed at my trousers.
他的狗嗅了嗅我的裤子。
[with direct speech]‘You're behaving in an unladylike fashion,’ sniffed Mother.
“你的行为不像淑女,”母亲嗤笑道。
■[with obj.]draw in (a scent, substance, or air) through the nose
用鼻子吸(气味,东西,空气)
■[usu. with negative](sniff at)show contempt or dislike for
嗤之以鼻,蔑视
the price is not to be sniffed at.
价格很是不菲。
■(sniff around/round)(informal)investigate covertly, especially in an attempt to find out confidential or incriminating information about someone
(非正式)侦察
■[with obj.](sniff something out)(informal)discover something by investigation
(非正式)调查到
he made millions sniffing out tax loopholes for companies.
他通过发现税则漏洞帮公司赚了几百万。
- an act or sound of drawing air through the nose
吸气
he gave a sniff of disapproval.
他嗤了一声,表示不同意。
■an amount of air or other substance taken up in such a way
吸入的空气(或其他物质)
his drug use was confined to a sniff of amyl nitrite.
他用药只限于小小一嗅亚硝酸戊脂罢了。
■[in sing.](informal)a hint or sign
(非正式)线索,迹象
they're off at the first sniff of trouble.
他们一嗅到有麻烦就跑了。
■[in sing.](informal)a small chance
(非正式)一线希望
the Olympic hosts will at least get a sniff at a medal.
奥运会东道主至少会有一丝希望拿到一块奖牌。
- (informal)worth having, accepting, or taking into account
语源
- Middle English: imitative
sniff
名词 sniff:
sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
同义词:snuff
动词 sniff:
perceive by inhaling through the nose
同义词:whiff
inhale audibly through the nose
同义词:sniffle
sniff
■"We shouldn't sniff at this opportunity--we any not get another like it."
"我们不可小看这个机会--也许我们再也找不到这样的机会了。"
■"I remember," I said, giving a sniff.
“我记得,”我说,擤了一下鼻子。
■"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things; and other girls nothing at all," added little Army, with an injured sniff.
“有些女孩子漂亮东西太多,有的女孩子却一无所有,我认为这不公道。”小阿密委屈地缩了一下鼻子补充道。
■"Drosophila sniff CO2 and avoid it like crazy," says neurobiologist Anand Ray of the University of California, Riverside.
“果蝇嗅出二氧化碳,避免了疯狂,”神经生物学家雷加州大学河滨分校,阿南说。
■Every person has a unique "smell print," which the device can sniff out, the researchers explained.
“每一个人都有唯一的’气味图案’,电子鼻能够嗅得出.
■At this time, in order to schonborn Shanghai to carry out a large-scale publicity Wenzhou people from another sniff out opportunities in the market.
“温州与上海的经济关联度很大。相对于上海,温州还是个小地方,许多家长都希望子女以及自身在上海找到新的发展。”王彬说。
■One morning, Sniff & Scurry arrived at Cheese Station C & discovered there was no cheese.
一天早上,嗅嗅和匆匆到了C宫,发现那里没有奶酪了。
■As soon as you sniff the greasy, salty smell wafting from the pan everything else slips away into a happy haze.
一闻到平锅飘来的那股油腻中又带咸味的香气,你的一切思绪就立即化作云雾,只记得全身轻飘飘醉醺醺的腾驾起来。
■Don't sniff at his effort. He's made great progress.
不要看不起他的努力。他已经取得了很大的进步。
■Don't sniff at his effort,He's made great progress.
不要看不起他的努力,他已经取得了很大的进步。
■But in order to take care of his care and thought, we must first loaded loaded like a pleasant surprise, and then Rose is a rare treasure with the mentality of touch, olfactory One sniff.
不过为了照顾他的良苦用心,一定要先装装一副惊喜样,接着带着玫瑰花是稀世珍宝的心态摸一摸,嗅一嗅。
■Why do dogs sniff each other's butts?
不错的句子,别乱用哦。
■The mice, Sniff and Scurry, used the simple, trial-and-error method of finding cheese.
两个小老鼠,嗅嗅和匆匆,总是运用简单低效的反复尝试的办法找奶酪。
■Two were mice named “Sniff” & “Scurry” and two were little people named “Hem” & “Haw”.
两个是小老鼠,一个名子叫嗅嗅,另一个叫匆匆。
■Two half-time remarks of The opposition havent had a sniff.
两次中场评论是:对手没有喘息机会。
■How Dogs Came to Sniff Under Tails?
为何狗会去闻尾巴下面?
■Today is Monday again, full of hope and start. First I sniff the corner of my house, I think everything in under my control, that's good.
今天又是星期一,充满著希望和开始,首先我闻闻家里的角落,一切都在我的控制范围内。
■This makes beagles wonderful airport food-sniffers, though they won't sniff anything else.
从而小猎犬成为了机场食品嗅检的理想动物,不过除此之外它们也不会嗅别的东西。
■Super-encrypt from keyboard to end user, set up a virtual private network for you and yours, and anyone who cracks the 802.11 transmissions will sniff garbage.
从键盘到最终用户的超级加密为您设置虚拟专用网络,破坏802.11传输的任何人都将嗅探无用信息。
■They could sniff out WMD in Iraq as snappily as hot dogs at a football game, though it took the UN many years to come up with nothing.
他们在伊拉克找到大规模杀伤性武器,就好比一般人在足球赛的看台上找到热狗摊一样容易,然而联合国忙活了好多年仍然一无所获。
■In this regard, they noted that dogs sniff much faster than humans, perhaps accounting for their superior tracking abilities.
他们指出,在吸气频率方面,狗要比人快得多,它们极为灵敏的嗅觉或许就是拜此所赐。
■They make bad blood, can't forgive, sniff right, and left for approbation.
他们有一些坏作风,他们不饶人。为了得到公众的承认,他们四处寻风摸底。
■It's their job to sniff out abuses of power.
他们的工作是对滥用职权的情况进行调查了解。
■They implore the country's newspapers to sniff out and expose the fiddles of officials.
他们请求报纸寻找并披露官员的污点。
■They make threats but back down at the first sniff of trouble.
他们起先气势汹汹,但一看情形不妙立刻软了下来。
■He cleared his nose with a loud sniff.
他大声吸气清了清鼻子。
■He's always been a self-starter, someone who sniff out an untapped market and goes for it successfully.
他工作主动,善于觉察未开发的市场并且成功地把握住它。
■Mostly hype, sniff his critics, who claim, among other things, that he balanced the books by cutting health spending and cares more about efficiency than ending poverty.
他的批评者揶揄这多半只是大作宣传,除了别的之外,他们认为他是通过削减保健支出来实现帐目平衡,并且相比结束贫困他更关注行政效率。
■It is his job to sniff out abuses of power.
他的职责就是查究滥用权力的行为。
■He saw Julia pick up her glass and sniff at it with frank curiosity.
他看见裘莉亚毫不掩饰她的好奇,端起杯子送到鼻尖闻。
■But you must sniff the violet deeply only once because it contains a chemical called ionine which deadens our scent receptors temporarily after smelling.
但一定只能对紫香兰深嗅一次,因为它含有一种称为氨酸的化学物, 会暂时使人失去嗅觉。
■"But we found that people can certainly sniff their way accurately around a spatial context -- although less successfully and slower if they hae only one nostril to work with.
但是我们发现人们确实能在某个空间环境下准确地靠嗅觉找到路--虽然成功率较少,加上如果他们一边鼻子不通的话,花费时间也比较长。”
■All of this without even a sniff at an MVP.
但是所有的这一切竟然都没能给他带来一座MVP奖杯。
■You should not sniff at such a good offer.
你不应该对这么好的提议嗤之以鼻。
■You shouldn't sniff at this opportunity - you may not get another like it.
你不应该拒绝这个机会你可能再也不到这样的机会了。
■You shouldn't sniff at that offer.
你不该封那项提议嗤之以鼻。
■Using your currency we had a man sniff around Jerry's compound In search of this key.
你可以用你的钱来找个人去德国佬军营那边找那把钥匙。
■You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
你故意叫高价,因为一英里以外你就嗅出了这个客户很糟糕。
■Ask the child to sniff after you instill the drops.
你滴入药物后让小儿把药物吸入鼻内。
■And the park has trained a beagle, named Python Pete, to sniff out the snakes.
公园方面也训练了一只名叫“蟒蛇保险箱”的小猎犬,用它来寻找蟒蛇。
■One story is about a Kenyan streetfamily in which the breadwinner is a 12-year-old prostitute and the parents give their children glue to sniff because it's cheaper than food and dulls their hunger.
其中一则故事介绍一个漂泊街头的肯亚家庭,负担家庭生计的是12岁的雏妓,父母给子女吸胶,因为比食物便宜,又能麻痹饥饿感。
■Two were mice, named “Sniff ” and “Scurry” and two were littlepeople-beings who were as small as mice but who looked and acted a lot like people today.
其中有两只小老鼠,一个叫“嗅嗅”,另一个叫“匆匆”。还有两个和老鼠一般大小的小矮人,模样和行为看上去像今天的人类。
■Two were mice, named “Sniff ” and “Scurry” and two were littlepeople-beings who were as small as mice but who looked and acted a lot like people today. their names were “Hem” and “Haw.
其中有两只小老鼠,一个叫“嗅嗅”,另一个叫“匆匆”。还有两个和老鼠一般大小的小矮人,模样和行为看上去像今天的人类。他俩一个叫“哼哼”,另一个叫“唧唧”。
■By four or five o'clock they come out on their doorsteps to chat with and look at their neighbors and get a sniff of fresh air. Then night falls, they are dead tired and go to sleep again.
到下午四五点钟时她们跑到门边,和邻居相见,大家谈谈天,吸吸新鲜空气,到了晚上,他们带着疲乏的身体再上床去睡。
■By four or five o'clock they come out on their doorsteps to chat with and look at their neighbors and get a sniff of fresh air. Then night falls,they are dead tired and go to sleep again.
到下午四五点钟时,她们跑到门边,和邻居相见,大家谈谈天,吸吸新鲜空气,到了晚上,他们带着疲乏的身体再上床去睡。
■Calid possesses an unusual (though useful) ability to sniff out hidden sulfur deposits. The Dungeon Overlords have used her on several occasions when collecting sulfur for their fearsome dragons.
卡利德有一种非常特殊(但有用)的能力,她能嗅到隐藏的硫磺矿。地下领主们雇佣她为凶猛的龙族收集硫磺。
■If there's any news June will soon sniff it out.
只要有新闻,琼总是会马上知道的。
■An ox or a sheep would not even sniff at grass named Zhao Feiyan.
叫赵飞燕的草,它们连闻都懒得闻一下。
■Sadly, as far as we know this was only sites under the SCE America umbrella, and our request for a sniff went unanswered (TSA pinging SCEA, TSA pinging SCEA).
可悲的是,据我们所知,这是只有在美国的保护伞专家委员会网站,我们要求一闻闻讯后组织(TSA侦测SCEA的轻便侦测索尼计算机娱乐美国)。
■If we sniff up this special drug, it will clear our heads.
吸入这种特殊药物,可清醒大脑。
sniff at
1. 嗤之以鼻
You shouldn't sniff at such a good offer.
你不应该对这么好的提议嗤之以鼻。
习惯用语sniff at1.■嗅, 闻2.■瞧不起sniff out1.■发现, 寻找