bluff
柯林斯词典
1. N-VAR A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it. 虛張聲勢
The letter was a bluff. 這封信是虛張聲勢。
It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff. 重要的是準備軍事解決途逕來証明這竝不是虛張聲勢。
2. PHRASE 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. 要某人攤牌
The socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff. 社會黨人已經決定讓反對黨攤牌了。
3. V-T/V-I 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. 用…虛張聲勢; 招搖撞騙
Either side, or both, could be bluffing. 任何一方或者雙方都可能是在虛張聲勢。
In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades. 每一次，劫機者都是用假手榴彈騙機組人員。
4. N a steep promontory, bank, or cliff, esp one formed by river erosion on the outside bend of a meander 峭壁; 陡岸
5. ADJ good-naturedly frank and hearty 直率的
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bluff /blʌf/ (bluffing,bluffed,bluffs)
剑桥词典
- to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else
虛張聲勢；嚇唬
Is he going to jump or is he only bluffing? 他是真要跳還是衹是嚇唬人？
Tony seems to know a lot about music , but sometimes I think he's only bluffing. 托尼似乎對音樂很了解，但有時我覺得他衹是在裝樣子。
She bluffed the doorman into think ing that she was a reporter . 她裝模作樣讓門衛以爲她是記者。
bluff your way into/out of sth
If you bluff your way into or out of a situation , you get yourself into or out of it by deceiving people .
矇混過關
How did Mina manage to bluff her way into that job ? 米娜究竟是怎樣矇混過關得到那份工作的？
He's one of those people who is very good at bluffing their way out of trouble . 他屬於那種善於矇混過關擺脫麻煩的人。 返回 bluff