wind
n. 风,气流; 胃气; 呼吸; 管乐器; 趋势
v. 使呼吸困难; 给(婴儿)拍嗝; 蜿蜒; 缠绕; 给…上发条
adj. 管乐的
A wind is a current of air that is moving across the earth's surface.
There was a strong wind blowing...
狂风肆虐。
Then the wind dropped and the surface of the sea was still...
后来风势渐弱,海面重归平静。
Journalists often refer to a trend or factor that influences events as a wind of a particular kind.
The winds of change are blowing across the country...
改革之风吹遍全国。
The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.
全世界的航空航天工业都感受到了经济衰退的寒意。
If you are winded by something such as a blow, the air is suddenly knocked out of your lungs so that you have difficulty breathing for a short time.
He was winded and shaken...
他呼吸困难,身体发抖。
The cow stamped on his side, winding him.
牛重重地踩在他的肋部,使他喘不上气来。
Wind is the air that you sometimes swallow with food or drink, or gas that is produced in your intestines, which causes an uncomfortable feeling.
If you wind a baby, you hit its back gently in order to help it to release air from its stomach.
If he cries when you put him down after a feed, try winding him.
如果你喂完后把他放下时他哭,给他拍拍嗝儿。
The wind section of an orchestra or band is the group of people who produce musical sounds by blowing into their instruments.
If someone breaks wind, they release gas from their intestines through their anus.
If you get wind of something, you hear about it, especially when someone else did not want you to know about it.
I don't want the public, and especially not the press, to get wind of it at this stage.
我不想让公众,尤其是新闻界,在这个阶段听到什么风声。
If something is in the wind, it is likely to happen.
By the mid-1980s, change was in the wind again.
20世纪80年代中期,变革又呈山雨欲来之势。
If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
'I heard you had some funny phone calls.' — 'Yeah, that's why yours rather put the wind up me.'
“我听说你接到了一些骚扰电话。”——“没错儿,所以你的电话把我吓坏了。”
If you sail close to the wind, you take a risk by doing or saying something that may get you into trouble.
Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.
马克斯警告她说她这是在玩火,有被起诉的危险。
If something takes the wind out of your sails, it suddenly makes you much less confident in what you are doing or saying.
If you realize or find out which way the wind is blowing or how the wind is blowing, you realize or find out what is likely to happen, for example whether something is likely to succeed.
He didn't like to make pronouncements before he was sure which way the wind was blowing.
在没有弄清事态的走向前,他不想发表声明。
1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure;
2. a tendency or force that influences events;
3. breath;
4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;
5. an indication of potential opportunity;
6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
8. the act of winding or twisting;
1. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;
2. extend in curves and turns;
3. wrap or coil around;
4. catch the scent of; get wind of;
5. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem;
6. form into a wreath
7. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;
before the wind
(航海)顺风,借风力
get wind of
(非正式)开始觉察;听到…的风声,获悉…的消息
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
(谚)使人人遭殃的风才是恶风;世上鲜有绝对的坏事;害于此者利于彼
like the wind
飞快地
off the wind
(航海)顺风
on a wind
(航海)逆风,迎风,顶风
put (或 have) the wind up
(英,非正式)(使)警觉;(使)受惊吓
sail close to (或 near) the wind
(航海)迎风航行
(非正式)行为几失检点;近乎不老实;濒临险境
take the wind out of someone's sails
先发制人;冷不防挫败某人
to the wind(s) (或 the four winds)
四面八方
wind down
(尤指用发条驱动的机械装置)渐渐停下
wind up informal 非正式
抵达;(以某状态,情况或在某地)结束
同 wind something up(义项2):
wind someone up
(英,非正式)捉弄,激怒(某人)
使紧张(或生气)
wind something up
(公司)停业清理
慢慢终止;以…告终
(非正式)增加某物的紧张度(或强度、力量)
Branches sway gently in the wind.
树枝在风中微微摇荡.
Braving the biting wind, she went out to beg from door to door.
她不顾寒风刺骨, 出去挨门乞讨.
A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
一阵狂风把床吹离了屋顶,“轰”的一声落到下面的院子里.
The leaves were dancing in the wind.
树叶迎风漂舞.
The captain kept a close watch on the wind.
船长仔细观察风头.