wind
n. 風,氣流; 胃氣; 呼吸; 管樂器; 趨勢
v. 使呼吸困難; 給(嬰兒)拍嗝; 蜿蜒; 纏繞; 給…上發條
adj. 管樂的
A wind is a current of air that is moving across the earth's surface.
There was a strong wind blowing...
狂風肆虐。
Then the wind dropped and the surface of the sea was still...
後來風勢漸弱,海面重歸平靜。
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...
改革之風吹遍全國。
The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.
全世界的航空航天工業都感受到了經濟衰退的寒意。
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...
他呼吸困難,身體發抖。
The cow stamped on his side, winding him.
牛重重地踩在他的肋部,使他喘不上氣來。
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.
如果你喂完後把他放下時他哭,給他拍拍嗝兒。
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.
我不想讓公眾,尤其是新聞界,在這個階段聽到什麼風聲。
If something is in the wind, it is likely to happen.
By the mid-1980s, change was in the wind again.
20世紀80年代中期,變革又呈山雨欲來之勢。
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.'
“我聽說你接到了一些騷擾電話。”——“沒錯兒,所以你的電話把我嚇壞了。”
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.
馬克斯警告她說她這是在玩火,有被起訴的危險。
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.
在沒有弄清事態的走向前,他不想發表宣告。
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)順風,借風力
get wind of
(非正式)開始覺察;聽到…的風聲,獲悉…的訊息
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
(諺)使人人遭殃的風才是惡風;世上鮮有絕對的壞事;害於此者利於彼
like the wind
飛快地
off the wind
(航海)順風
on a wind
(航海)逆風,迎風,頂風
put (或 have) the wind up
(英,非正式)(使)警覺;(使)受驚嚇
sail close to (或 near) the wind
(航海)迎風航行
(非正式)行為幾失檢點;近乎不老實;瀕臨險境
take the wind out of someone's sails
先發制人;冷不防挫敗某人
to the wind(s) (或 the four winds)
四面八方
wind down
(尤指用發條驅動的機械裝置)漸漸停下
wind up informal 非正式
抵達;(以某狀態,情況或在某地)結束
同 wind something up(義項2):
wind someone up
(英,非正式)捉弄,激怒(某人)
使緊張(或生氣)
wind something up
(公司)停業清理
慢慢終止;以…告終
(非正式)增加某物的緊張度(或強度、力量)
Branches sway gently in the wind.
樹枝在風中微微搖盪.
Braving the biting wind, she went out to beg from door to door.
她不顧寒風刺骨, 出去挨門乞討.
A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below.
一陣狂風把床吹離了屋頂,“轟”的一聲落到下面的院子裡.
The leaves were dancing in the wind.
樹葉迎風漂舞.
The captain kept a close watch on the wind.
船長仔細觀察風頭.