| 单词 | bluff |
| 释义 | bluff I. 1. a. < the bluff bows of a ship > b. < the bluff banks of the river > 2. dialect England 3. < a bluff and rugged natural leader with impulsive determination and an explosive personality — John Warner > < a bluff aggressive manner > Synonyms: < a bluff, burly, hearty-looking man in a short blue jacket — Kenneth Roberts > < a bluff and hearty fellow who looks more like a marine combat officer than the fine musician which he really is — Current Biography > blunt ranges from being a near equivalent to bluff to implying an outspokenness inconsiderate of or discourteous to others < permit me to be businesslike and perhaps blunt, as my train leaves in one hour — Sinclair Lewis > < the Herald said the chief of police could best show his own lack of complicity by speedily catching and convicting the murderer or murderers. The editorial was blunt and bitter — Dashiell Hammett > brusque stresses sharp quickness and unceremoniousness < never again would she exclaim, in her brusque tone of genial ruthlessness: “Fiddlesticks” — Arnold Bennett > < at first he thought that Dirk was the cause of the disaster, and he was needlessly brusque with him — W.S.Maugham > curt stresses shortness and may or may not imply discourtesy < at breakfast … she was curt. “I don't care to discuss it,” she said — Sinclair Lewis > < it was the first of the month and there were curt notes from the water company — John Steinbeck > crusty suggests a harsh, uncivil, irascible manner, sometimes concealing an inner kindliness < the lashing tongue of a crusty disciplinarian — F.V.W.Mason > < this crusty old lawyer, who had made no bones about his contempt for the tetrarch — L.C.Douglas > gruff also implies a harsh surly manner and curt, perhaps guttural, utterance < a man's voice, ill-tempered and gruff, rose through the shadowy room — Louis Bromfield > < “Fool” said the sophist, in an undertone gruff with contempt — John Keats > II. 1. < a fort on the bluff overlooking the junction of the rivers > 2. North III. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. 3. a. < with the power of England behind him had bluffed the Hamburg merchants out of participating — W.P.Webb > b. < wanted to bluff them into thinking that the route of the railroad had been changed > c. < the catcher bluffed a throw to first base > intransitive verb 1. a. b. 2. < it is destructive of public goodwill to bluff or fake when you cannot give the information requested — Lou Smyth > IV. 1. 2. 3. a. < having … nothing to support his pretensions he decided to put up a bluff — Sherwood Anderson > < he put on a good bluff > < it was all a bluff > b. < the agreement had been reached after weeks of bluff and haggle — Time > 4. < he was pretty much of a bluff > |
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