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单词 chain-smoke
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Definition of chain-smoke in English:

chain-smoke

verbˈtʃʌɪnsməʊkˈtʃeɪnˌsmoʊk
[no object]
  • Smoke continually, typically by lighting a cigarette from the stub of the last one smoked.

    he chain-smoked and drank too much
    with object he chain-smoked menthol cigarettes
    morose, chain-smoking soldiers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Also there was the fact that practically everyone in the bar was chain-smoking, and there was limited ventilation in the room.
    • I led Laura to The Mermaid, where she trailed behind me, chain-smoking.
    • An archetypal loner who chain-smokes, drives when drunk and rarely has a fresh pint of milk in the fridge, he is dysfunction personified.
    • Tom would be teasing Katie, and Dad chain-smoking and making jokes, while Mom piled the table with enough food to feed the Zuckermans twice over.
    • High-roller gamblers from Asia tend to chain-smoke, which has traditionally gone hand-in-hand with drinking and gambling.
    • Undernourished and chain-smoking, he looks 16.
    • You chain-smoked cigarettes, throughout the night.
    • Once poker was a game played by chain-smoking, visor-wearing social oddities with rolls of cash and an obsession for cards which bordered on addiction.
    • Most of the women were chain-smoking, and everyone was drinking.
    • She spends what seem like hours bathing, listening to Billie Holiday records, chain-smoking, and smiling to herself.
    • It now seems almost certain that the once fun-loving, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Royal socialite will bow out of public life.
    • Marge's chain-smoking, DMV-working sister, Selma, feels the tick of her biological clock.
    • The cigarette consumption is voracious - he chain-smokes throughout our interview and has previously smoked his way around the golf course.
    • It's a bit of an odd casting choice considering that in the comics he's a ragged, chain-smoking, working class Brit with blonde hair.
    • Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
    • He took us to a café by the sea where we drank Malibu while he chain-smoked and chatted about his life in Kotor and the tensions he experienced because of his Albanian nationality.
    • I spent my working hours chain-smoking cigarettes and looking through the packs of developed photographs before the customers returned for them.
    • We went during Paris fashion week and the place was full of martini drinking skinny models, chain-smoking and sipping Martinis.
    • The host was politically incorrect, chain-smoking, and fiercely monarchist.
    • I'm not in the market for any old artsy, chain-smoking, wonderful kisser, prince.

Derivatives

  • chain-smoker

  • nounˈtʃeɪnsməʊkəˈtʃeɪnˌsmoʊkər
    • I found even my good days weighing around my shoulders, with their own distinct smell wafting around my head like the scent that follows chain-smokers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There were so many weapons there that I did not even dare smoke and I am a chain-smoker.
      • With water all around me I had little choice but to sit under a leaky tarpaulin beside chain-smokers and crying children, only now and then getting a glimpse up into the vast forests I was entering.
      • Most of them are addicted, and many are chain-smokers.
      • Not only was she one of the first chain-smokers, but she actually smoked in the street, was known to link arms with servants, and bicycled wearing Liberty frocks.
 
 

Definition of chain-smoke in US English:

chain-smoke

verbˈCHānˌsmōkˈtʃeɪnˌsmoʊk
[no object]
  • Smoke continually, especially by lighting a new cigarette from the butt of the last one smoked.

    he chain-smoked and drank too much
    with object he chain-smoked menthol cigarettes
    morose, chain-smoking soldiers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm not in the market for any old artsy, chain-smoking, wonderful kisser, prince.
    • Also there was the fact that practically everyone in the bar was chain-smoking, and there was limited ventilation in the room.
    • I led Laura to The Mermaid, where she trailed behind me, chain-smoking.
    • It now seems almost certain that the once fun-loving, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Royal socialite will bow out of public life.
    • He took us to a café by the sea where we drank Malibu while he chain-smoked and chatted about his life in Kotor and the tensions he experienced because of his Albanian nationality.
    • We went during Paris fashion week and the place was full of martini drinking skinny models, chain-smoking and sipping Martinis.
    • She spends what seem like hours bathing, listening to Billie Holiday records, chain-smoking, and smiling to herself.
    • Undernourished and chain-smoking, he looks 16.
    • The cigarette consumption is voracious - he chain-smokes throughout our interview and has previously smoked his way around the golf course.
    • You chain-smoked cigarettes, throughout the night.
    • Once poker was a game played by chain-smoking, visor-wearing social oddities with rolls of cash and an obsession for cards which bordered on addiction.
    • An archetypal loner who chain-smokes, drives when drunk and rarely has a fresh pint of milk in the fridge, he is dysfunction personified.
    • I spent my working hours chain-smoking cigarettes and looking through the packs of developed photographs before the customers returned for them.
    • Most of the women were chain-smoking, and everyone was drinking.
    • Marge's chain-smoking, DMV-working sister, Selma, feels the tick of her biological clock.
    • Tom would be teasing Katie, and Dad chain-smoking and making jokes, while Mom piled the table with enough food to feed the Zuckermans twice over.
    • It's a bit of an odd casting choice considering that in the comics he's a ragged, chain-smoking, working class Brit with blonde hair.
    • Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
    • High-roller gamblers from Asia tend to chain-smoke, which has traditionally gone hand-in-hand with drinking and gambling.
    • The host was politically incorrect, chain-smoking, and fiercely monarchist.
 
 
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