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词汇 fluffing
释义 fluffing
present participle offluff
fluff
verb[ T ]
 informaluk /flʌf/ us /flʌf/(US alsoflub)
mainly UK
to fail something or do it badly: 搞砸,弄糟
I fluffed my driving test three times before I finally got it.我搞砸了3次驾驶考试,之后才最终通过。
fluff your linesAll the time I was acting with him, I never once heard him fluff his lines (= say something wrong when acting).我一直和他一起表演,一次也没听到过他说错台词。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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Phrasal verb


fluff something up

Examples of fluffing


fluffing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Do not let us have any fluffing on this occasion.
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I would rather see a decision taken not to go ahead than that we go on fluffing decisions in this matter.
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Can we avoid fluffing the hard decisions?
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A display of a male involved fluffing its feathers, holding the bill high and flicking wings while swaying from side to side.
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An aggressive display involves fluffing up the feathers and holding the bill high.
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The male's courtship display involves fluffing out his breast feathers and running after the female; the species has no known aerial display.
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When feather fluffing, they contract their muscles to raise their feathers to increase the air space next to their skin.
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Live episodes are prone to mishaps and actors fluffing their lines.
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Similarly, it is also reported that the parent birds brooded by perching on the branch above the nest and fluffing their breast feathers out to cover it.
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Often, dry chemical and dry powder types are hit on the bottom with a rubber mallet to make sure the powder is free-flowing, which is called fluffing the powder.
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This is known as fluffing.
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