音标:[snʌfs] ;
n. 鼻烟( snuff的名词复数 )
v. 剪(烛)花( snuff的第三人称单数 ); 熄灭(烛光); 消灭; 谋杀
n the charred portion of a candlewick
n a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
n finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
n sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
v sniff or smell inquiringly
v inhale audibly through the nose

snuff的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. My grandfather used to take snuff.我祖父以前常吸鼻烟。
  2. Give the barber a pinch of snuff.给剃头匠一撮鼻烟。
  3. At this moment on the ridge, up against the blazing sky, a flgure was visible, like the black snuff in the midst of a candle flame.恰在此时,在那山岗上,在那阳光绚丽的天际出现了一个身影,就象蜡烛火焰中的一个黑色烛花。
用作动词(v.)
  1. He leant forward and snuffed the candle.他俯下身掐灭了蜡烛。
  2. His dad snuffed it a couple of years ago.他爸爸两年前就吹灯了。
  3. Moreover, such protests as have taken place have been easy to snuff out.而且,已经发生的这种抗议很容易遭到扼杀。
  4. The dog came over and snuffed at her feet.那条狗跑过来,用力嗅她的脚。

词汇搭配

  • snuff it死
  • up to snuff正常的(精明的)...
  • snuff out掐灭
  • snuff film凶杀影片
  • snuff stick鼻烟勺
  • take it in snuff动怒(生气
  • go off like a candle in a snuff突然死掉
  • go off like the snuff of a candle突然死掉
  • give someone snuff严厉地对待某人,惩罚...

经典引文

  • She was going out like the snuff of a candle.

    出自:A. Trollope
  • Yellow specks..rapidly snuffed out.

    出自:Dickens
  • He..without wetting his fingers snuffs the candle.

    出自:T. Pynchon
  • The great war had snuffed out the spirit of adventure.

    出自:R. Berthoud
  • 'The air's..delicious.' She snuffed it like a racehorse.

    出自:V. Woolf
【近义词】
学英语单词
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aluvihare
Alyxia acutifolia
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asymmetric, asymmetrical
be on a different wavelength
blackhead
bowrd
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carbazole salt
cedulamin
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chargor's right
chesebrough-ponds
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costal surface
definitive norm
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Diothyl
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falcon-gentles
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fermentograph
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flavaspidinol
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friendlings
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geekstas
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gravity pier
grieflike
grunch
gwennap
insulin comatose therapy
jagged casing
labidochromiss
lateral ventriculo-cisterna magna shunt
lattice layer
light cutting
love poem
luminous efficiency of phosphor screen
Magnoplasm
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Mazingu
microproteinuria
moment of a magnet
muscogulge
mycaloside
Nakhl an Nīlah
Nanbu
narcotics squad
Neocypria
NIPP-1
nourishing blood and promoting granulation
odd parity
parallelly
partition constant
pinfalls
pinhole failure
pleuropulmonal region
plexus pulmonalis anterior
Polnaya
post weld heat treatment(pwht)
protoquartzite
pseudocholinestrasedeficiency
pusher engine
radiotelephone distress frequency watch receiver
reversed phase foam chromatography
rhyolitic magma
rifacimento
Securities Exchange Commission
Shamungamba
shoulder emblem
sky grey
snailflower
stepwise dissociation
stubborn as a mule
sundholm
switch overtravel
tail shaft governor
temporary cash received and paid
the national anthem
trysails
unviewable
vehicle-to-vehicle
water environmental capacity of pollutant