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VERB
(忍住不哭或表示不贊成時)抽鼻子
When you sniff, you breathe in air through your nose hard enough to make a sound, for example when you are trying not to cry, or in order to show disapproval.
例句
She wiped her face and sniffed loudly...
她抹了一把臉，很響地抽著鼻子。
Moira looked around and sniffed. 'This place badly needs a decorator.'...
莫伊拉環顧四周，抽了抽鼻子。“這個地方太需要有人來裝修一下了。”
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VERB
聞;嗅
If you sniff something or sniff at it, you smell it by sniffing.
例句
Suddenly, he stopped and sniffed the air...
他突然停下來，聞了聞空氣里的味道。
She sniffed at it suspiciously.
她懷疑地聞了聞。
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VERB
嗤之以鼻地表示;輕蔑地說
You can use sniff to indicate that someone says something in a way that shows their disapproval or contempt.
例句
'Tourists!' she sniffed.
她輕蔑地說道：“游客!”
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VERB
輕視;蔑視
If you say that something is not to be sniffed at, you think it is very good or worth having. If someone sniffs at something, they do not think it is good enough, or they express their contempt for it.
例句
The salary was not to be sniffed at either...
這份工資也不容小覷。
Foreign Office sources sniffed at reports that British troops might be sent.
外交部消息人士對有可能派出英國軍隊的報道不屑一顧。
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VERB
用鼻子吸入(膠毒等)
If someone sniffs a substance such as glue, they deliberately breathe in the substance or the gases from it as a drug.
例句
He felt light-headed, as if he'd sniffed glue.
他覺得暈乎乎的，好像吸了膠毒一樣。
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N-SING
嗅到;感覺到
If you get a sniff of something, you learn or guess that it might be happening or might be near.
例句
You know what they'll be like if they get a sniff of a murder investigation...
你知道如果他們嗅到馬上會進行謀殺調查會怎么樣。
Have the Press got a sniff yet?...
新聞界嗅到了一點消息沒有？
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N-SING
一絲;一點兒
If you say that someone has not had a sniff of something, you mean that they have not had even a small chance of getting it.
例句
Winterton has never had a sniff of a government job in his entire twenty-one years in parliament.
在國會的整整21年里，溫特頓沒有得到過任何在政府里工作的機會。