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chain-smoke

/cheyn-smohk/US // ˈtʃeɪnˌsmoʊk //

连环烟,链式烟熏,链式烟尘,链式烟

Definitions

  1. 1

    chain-smoked, chain-smoking.

    • : to smoke continually, as by lighting one cigarette, cigar, etc., from the preceding one.

Examples

  • You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.

  • When it comes to the increasing number of rape allegations leveled at Bill Cosby, the smoke is becoming impenetrable.

  • You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke.

  • “At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

  • Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.

  • She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?

  • The young men gathered round him and offered him a cigar, which he accepted and began to smoke.

  • After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.

  • The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.

  • In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.