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wafted

/waft, wahft/US // wæft, wɑft //UK // (wɑːft, wɒft) //

飘逸的,飘飘然,飘散的,飘逸

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v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
    • : to send or convey lightly, as if in flight: The actress wafted kisses to her admirers in the audience.
    • : Obsolete. to signal to, summon, or direct by waving.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to float or be carried, especially through the air: The sound wafted on the breeze. The music wafted across the lake.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a sound, odor, etc., faintly perceived: a waft of perfume.
    • : a wafting movement; light current or gust: a waft of air.
    • : the act of wafting.
    • : Also waif. Nautical. a signal given by waving a flag.

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Examples

  • He caught a waft of methane and spotted a pile of corroded metal surrounding a hole that had once been an active well.

  • “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.

  • The smells waft through the shantytown of tents and tires known as the Maidan, the main square in Kiev.

  • The film is an amiable but formless waft through a 1950s British film set.

  • Bewitching scents waft from a stone vessel holding multicolored powders, herbs and seeds.

  • It needed only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper; to waft it kite-fashion to the bank.

  • It sufficed, however, to waft them into a little cove making into one of these islands at about two hours before noon.

  • She had a vague feeling that the boat should have been ready to waft them miraculously over star-lit seas.

  • A puff of wind brought them a waft of fainter odour from the wild violets which carpeted the woods.

  • But we link our wishes with whatsoever would gently waft us over.