| 词汇 | bluffing |
| 释义 | bluffing present participle ofbluff bluff verb[ I or T ] uk /blʌf/ us /blʌf/ 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: 虚张声势;吓唬 bluff someone into something/doing somethingShe bluffed the doorman into thinking that she was a reporter.她装模作样让门卫以为她是记者。 Is he going to jump or is he only bluffing?他是真要跳还是只是吓唬人？ Tony seems to know a lot about music, but sometimes I think he's only bluffing.托尼似乎对音乐很了解，但有时我觉得他只是在装样子。 bluff your way into/out of something If you bluff your way into or out of a situation, you get yourself into or out of it by deceiving people: 蒙混过关 How did Mina manage to bluff her way into that job?米娜究竟是怎样蒙混过关得到那份工作的？ Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry faker false false modesty falsifiable falsify out-bluff pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act professed purport quackery Examples of bluffingbluffing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Citizens then serve as the sanctioning mechanism for bluffing only if they become properly informed by open media. However, the junta could still have been greatly constrained from bluffing by the ' audience costs ' engendered by its military constituency. Since bluffing will be costly in democracies, bargaining becomes more transparent and more credible. There is also a conceptual argument against bluffing threats we will consider when we discuss their rationality. This assumption is that it is not possible to issue a bluffing threat. Labor unions trust their allies, and union competition or monopoly provides signals of their strength and make probing and bluffing unnecessary. Play involves learning what responses are effective in interacting with others, which conspecifics to challenge and which to defer to; learning about timing and surprise, fainting, and bluffing. He advised me to beware of people bluffing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is bluffing us and he is bluffing himself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking about bluffing and false bids. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The milling combine will refuse to give information, and will go on bluffing up to the last minute. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So we should, and there should be no bluffing and fooling about this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The human capacity of bluffing oneself into believing that one can get by is amazing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should say to the management that it has shown that it is determined and resolved, and was not bluffing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had thought that we were bluffing, but he realised that he was wrong. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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