snuff

英 [snʌf] 美 [snʌf]

• n. 鼻烟；烛花
• v. 掐灭；吹灯拔蜡（死亡）；扼杀；嗅；抽鼻子；剪烛花

英英释义

Noun:

1. the charred portion of a candlewick

2. a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time

3. finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose

4. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose

Adjective:

1. snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown

Verb:

1. sniff or smell inquiringly

2. inhale audibly through the nose;

   "snuff coke"
   

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。

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

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...

近反义词

【近义词】

• extinguish 熄灭
• put out 熄灭
• douse 浸入
• snuff out 掐灭
• blow out 吹灭(突然爆裂...
• smother 窒息
• quench 熄灭
• destroy 破坏
• kill 杀死
• eliminate 除去
• abolish 废除
• eradicate 根除
• annihilate 消灭
• snuff-brown 鼻烟色的
• snuffle 抽鼻子
• chukker-brown 鼻烟色的
• mummy-brown 鼻烟色的
• sniff 嗅