单词 | bluster |
释义 | blus·ter I. intransitive verb 1. < with clouds spitting snow and wind blustering off the lake — T.W.Duncan > : be windy and boisterous < when autumn blusters and the orchard rocks — Robert Browning > 2. < it pleased a people who bragged and blustered but felt themselves outsiders in the world of nations — J.D.Hart > transitive verb 1. < blustering I know not what of insolence and love — Alfred Tennyson > 2. < a hurricane blustering its wild way across quiet country — W.S.Maugham > < trying to bluster us into the belief that they are much better than they look — F.A.Swinnerton > Synonyms: see roar II. 1. < the strong breeze driving them was setting up a bluster on the water — Rose Thurburn > 2. < they do their work without bluster or ostentation — Stanley Walker > 3. < I don't count his bluster worth a cent — Winston Churchill > |
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