sniffs

英 [snɪfs]

美 [snɪfs]

v.  抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气); (吸着气)嗅，闻; 抱怨; 不以为然地说
n.  吸气(声); 抽鼻子(声); 嗅; 闻; 感觉; 察觉; 微小的可能性
sniff的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (忍住不哭或表示不赞成时)抽鼻子
  When yousniff, 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.
  1. She wiped her face and sniffed loudly...
     她抹了一把脸，很响地抽着鼻子。
  2. Moira looked around and sniffed. 'This place badly needs a decorator.'...
     莫伊拉环顾四周，抽了抽鼻子。“这个地方太需要有人来装修一下了。”
  3. Then he sniffed. There was a smell of burning...
     然后他抽了抽鼻子，发觉有一股烧焦的味道。
  4. He sniffed back the tears.
     他抽着鼻子，把眼泪忍了下去。
  5. Sniffis also a noun.
     
  6. At last the sobs ceased, to be replaced by sniffs.
     最后，啜泣终于止住了，只剩下抽鼻子的声音。
• VERB 闻;嗅
  If yousniffsomething orsniff atit, you smell it by sniffing.
  1. Suddenly, he stopped and sniffed the air...
     他突然停下来，闻了闻空气里的味道。
  2. She sniffed at it suspiciously.
     她怀疑地闻了闻。
• VERB 嗤之以鼻地表示;轻蔑地说
  You can usesniffto indicate that someone says something in a way that shows their disapproval or contempt.
  1. 'Tourists!' she sniffed.
     她轻蔑地说道：“游客!”
• VERB 轻视;蔑视
  If you say that something isnot to be sniffed at, you think it is very good or worth having. If someonesniffs atsomething, they do not think it is good enough, or they express their contempt for it.
  1. The salary was not to be sniffed at either...
     这份工资也不容小觑。
  2. Foreign Office sources sniffed at reports that British troops might be sent.
     外交部消息人士对有可能派出英国军队的报道不屑一顾。
• VERB 用鼻子吸入(胶毒等)
  If someonesniffsa substance such as glue, they deliberately breathe in the substance or the gases from it as a drug.
  1. He felt light-headed, as if he'd sniffed glue.
     他觉得晕乎乎的，好像吸了胶毒一样。
• N-SING 嗅到;感觉到
  If you get asniff ofsomething, you learn or guess that it might be happening or might be near.
  1. You know what they'll be like if they get a sniff of a murder investigation...
     你知道如果他们嗅到马上会进行谋杀调查会怎么样。
  2. Have the Press got a sniff yet?...
     新闻界嗅到了一点消息没有？
  3. Then, at the first sniff of danger, he was back at his post.
     然后，他一嗅到危险的气息，便马上回到自己的岗位。
• N-SING 一丝;一点儿
  If you say that someone has not hada sniff ofsomething, you mean that they have not had even a small chance of getting it.
  1. Winterton has never had a sniff of a government job in his entire twenty-one years in parliament.
     在国会的整整21年里，温特顿没有得到过任何在政府里工作的机会。

双语例句

• The research team concluded from an experiment that there appears to be a so-called behavioral synchronization between a sweating person and the person who sniffs that sweat.
  通过实验，研究团队发现，在出汗的人和闻到汗液味道的人之间存在着所谓的行为一致性。
• The bug sniffs the scent, zeros in, and gets captured by the wind from a small fan, forcing it into a bag.
  蚊子嗅到气味，全都飞过来，被一个小扇子扇出的风吹进了一个袋子里面。
• As soon as he feels free, he dashes offsintosthe bushes, swhereshe sniffs to his heart's content and lifts his leg more often than a ballet dancer.
  一旦他发现自己自由了，就会马上冲进灌木丛中，嗅个心满意足，同时频频抬腿撒尿，其抬腿的频率比芭蕾舞演员还要高。
• When a dog smells food, he usually sniffs.
  狗闻到食物时常吸鼻子。
• There are delicious, happy sniffs and scrumptious snacks to share.
  有着妙不可言，令人心醉神迷的香气，以及美味无比的点心与你分享。
• To control a wheelchair, for example, two short sniffs means a forward move, while two short exhalations means reverse.
  比如，患者想要控制一台轮椅，可以用两次短促吸气来示意前进，两次短促呼气来示意后退。
• An executive at a rival firm sniffs that it is not really relevant any more.
  一家对手公司的经理却嗤之以鼻，认为这没有关联。
• The tcpdump tool is an older tool that "sniffs" network packets from a network and either prints them to stdout or logs them to a file.
  tcpdump工具是一个比较老的工具，它从网上“嗅探”网络数据包，打印到stdout或记录在一个文件中。
• We designed a system named AIFS as an experiment, which sniffs and filters certain theme knowledge of Chinese webpage through text processing.
  文中设计的智能网页信息过滤系统名为AIFS，是基于内容理解的中文文本网页的主题探测和过滤。
• In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
  心似猛虎，细嗅蔷薇。