bluffing
v. 以假象欺騙,吹牛( bluff的現在分詞 ); 以虛張聲勢找出或達成
A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
The letter was a bluff...
這封信不過是嚇唬人罷了。
It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff...
關鍵是要做好採取軍事行動的準備,以表明這不是虛張聲勢。
If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
The Socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff.
社會黨人已經決定接受對方的挑戰。
If you bluff, you make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.
Either side, or both, could be bluffing...
任何一方,或者雙方,都可能是在故弄玄虛。
In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades...
每一個案例中,劫機者都用了假手榴彈嚇唬機組人員。
A bluff is a steep cliff or bank, especially by a river or the sea.
...a high bluff over the Congaree River.
康加里河邊高聳的峭壁
If you describe someone, usually a man, as bluff, you mean that they have a very direct way of speaking and behaving.
He comes across as a man with a bluff exterior who, beyond that, is difficult to get to know...
他給人感覺是一個直來直去的人,但內心卻讓人捉摸不透。
He has continued to write with a bluff, vivid humour about Yorkshire life.
他繼續用一種直白而又詼諧生動的筆觸描繪著約克郡的生活。
Either side, or both, could be bluffing.
任何一方,或者雙方,都可能是在故弄玄虛。
He says he'll win the race, but he's only bluffing.
他說他會贏得這場比賽, 事實上只是在吹牛.
Don't be afraid of him, he is just bluffing.
不要怕他, 他只是唬人.
He would not beat me. He was only bluffing.
他不會打我的, 只不過是嚇唬嚇唬而已.
I was not bluffing this time.
這回我可不是虛張聲勢了.