huffing n. 呼吸家用产品的有毒气味来振奋精神的做法
v. 激怒;蔑视;吹气;发怒;恫吓;(国际跳棋中)取掉(对方本可吃的棋子)(huff 的现在分词)
- Not that the orchestra — especially those huffing and puffing brasses — has lost any of its power.
不是乐团,不然,尤其是不少另类的任何损失的权力。 - There will be much huffing about China in congressional hearings, but the Democrats seem prepared to give Mr Paulson's new strategy a shot.
虽然国会听证会上将有不少人对中国怒火中烧,但民主党似乎准备让保尔森新策略一展身手。 - He has evidently made a bet with himself that for all their huffing and puffing the Chinese will not in the end want to blow his regime down.
很明显,他与自己赌了一把:因为中国在此事上费劲辛劳,(说明)中国最终是不愿将他打垮的。
huffing[ noun ]
an act of forcible exhalation
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Huff \Huff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Huffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Huffing}.] [Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of
imitative origin.]
1. To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
--Grew.
2. To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke
with insolence; to hector; to bully.
You must not presume to huff us. --Echard.
3. (Draughts) To remove from the board (the piece which could
have captured an opposing piece). See {Huff}, v. i., 3.