bluff 的 2 个定义
bluff·er, bluff·est.
- good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
- presenting a bold and nearly perpendicular front, as a coastline: a bluff, precipitous headland.
- Nautical. having a full, blunt form.
- a cliff, headland, or hill with a broad, steep face.
- North Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. a clump or grove of trees on a prairie or other generally treeless area.
bluff 近义词
abrupt
boast; deceit
precipice
deceive
更多bluff例句
- The bluff has happened so many times and it still hasn’t been banned that I now don’t think it’s going to happen.
- The house is balanced on a granite bluff, looking out to sea.
- Blakeslee was inspired by publications of an archaeologist who excavated at the same bluff site more than 60 years ago and suspected it had been a central part of Etzanoa.
- Hike the two-mile Headland Trail to the top of a bluff overlooking the Zuni Mountains and the volcanic craters of El Malpais National Monument.
- In a recent test of bluffing in poker, computer face recognition failed miserably.
- Ten days later, when the dust had settled, MSF President Joanne Liu called their bluff.
- It is not easy work, but it calls the bluff of those who would say “we have to take scripture seriously.”
- We end the tour on a bluff overlooking a mine in the distance.
- He was bluff, inspirational to the men, a brilliant tactician.
- On a bluff overlooking the sea, he pitched a tent and lived there for the next year in near total seclusion.
- “Mr. Pickwick, I thank you most heartily for all your kindness to my son,” said old Mr. Winkle, in a bluff straightforward way.
- At the offer of a smaller sum the Count would possibly bluff.
- There is also a conspicuous high bluff on the principal island, which appears to have been seen by the French.
- By and by, a straggling birch bluff rose blackly across their way, but nobody swung wide.
- It is situated in a wonderfully picturesque position, on a rocky bluff overlooking the River Wye.