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bluffing

/bluhf/US // blʌf //UK // (blʌf) //

虚张声势,虚张声势的行为,虚张声势的做法,虚张声势的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • Recent bluff collapses in San Diego have sparked conversations about public safety on beaches.

  • Bluff erosion — even catastrophic bluff collapse — is a natural process that has been occurring in San Diego for thousands of years.

  • More people could die from bluff collapses if nothing is done.

  • The genesis for the bill was the tragic August 2019 bluff collapse in Encinitas that took the lives of three people.

  • That same year, another bluff collapse in Del Mar destabilized a set of train tracks regularly carrying passengers between Los Angeles and San Diego.

  • Nor would the dangers end there even if Obama were not bluffing; Putin might think he was bluffing anyway and start a war.

  • As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing.

  • Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust.

  • It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common.

  • Jonathan Chait thinks Speaker Boehner is bluffing on allowing the sequestration to take place.

  • They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.

  • Mike grinned, remembering the time he had driven a robot brain daffy by bluffing it at poker.

  • He uttered a low laugh of contempt which showed plainer than words that he thought Curlie was bluffing.

  • Mrs. Spencer might be, probably was, bluffing but he did not propose to be the one to call it; the result was quite too uncertain.

  • She began to laugh at my bluffing words, and ended with a nervous sob.