词汇释义
whiff TEM8 GRE
UK /wɪf/ US /wɪf/
1. noun, If there is a whiff of a particular smell, you smell it only slightly or only for a brief period of time, for example as you walk past someone or something.一阵(气味)
2. noun, A whiff of something bad or harmful is a slight sign of it.轻微的征兆，迹象
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外刊例句
1. I started reaching for the mystery ingredients, opening the tops and taking a whiff to try to get a sense of their flavor.(Washington Post)
2. His announcement Wednesday is likely to include a whiff of one-upmanship, as the Democratic foreign policy experts say he is pulling off what the Republican iconoclast failed to do.(Seattle Times)
3. But there’s also a whiff of double entendre, perhaps best left unexplained: The tunnel will ultimately store sewage and polluted stormwater.(Seattle Times)
4. Just a whiff of vapor and the poison would grasp a man with the deadly intensity of a python’s embrace, squeezing him until he lacked even the breath with which to utter a final prayer.(Washington Post)
5. There was a stigma, and maybe a whiff of icebox dullness, that attached to foods stashed in Tupperware or sandwich bags.(New York Times)
6. “The institutional shareholders are starting to get a greater whiff of the responsibilities of being a shareholder. In the past, they didn’t care. Those days are long gone,” he said.(Reuters)
7. The monitoring sent a message that civil rights groups would move swiftly against any whiff of voter suppression.(The Guardian)
8. British and French diplomats, the officials said, took the news graciously but exuded a whiff of exasperation about the Trump administration’s apparently cavalier attitudes toward preventing the virus’s spread.(New York Times)
9. Trump desperately wants it be 2016 again, when his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was dragged down by misogyny, a dogged FBI and the whiff of coastal elitism.(The Guardian)
10. When it touched Bennu, the spacecraft’s arm released a whiff of nitrogen gas, which caused the rocks and pebbles on the asteroid to dance and twirl about in a frenzy.(The Verge)
11. Smoky peat was once used to dry the malted barley, and now a whiff of smokiness from that revived method overlays the subtly honeyed palate of this graceful new whiskey.(New York Times)
12. In the process Mr. Arnett found critics, who detected a whiff of paternalism in his relationship as a white art collector and dealer to impoverished Black artists.(New York Times)
词汇搭配
faint, slight, strong, unmistakable, deep whiff |catch, detect, get, take, have whiff | whiff of
词汇家族
whiffs
词汇来源
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.
近义词
flavor, glimmer, hint, suggestion, tang, trace
反义词
perfume, sweetness, fragrance, aroma, redolence, abundance, stack, plenitude, profusion, pile, mass
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