wafting 的 3 个定义
- 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.
- to float or be carried, especially through the air: The sound wafted on the breeze. The music wafted across the lake.
- 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.
wafting 近义词
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更多wafting例句
- Mice love the sweet smell of cherries, so when a waft reaches their nose, a pleasure zone in the brain lights up, motivating them to scurry around and hunt out the treat.
- One could be forgiven for barely noticing it—a waft of steam from a cup of coffee on a crisp, fall morning, or mist rising from the roof after a sudden summer downpour—it’s more the domain of poets than the rest of us.
- You walk in, or you talk to people, and you can just feel it wafting around you, warm and comforting.
- The words seemed to just hang in the air, wafting on bitter irony.
- Enthusiasm is difficult to manufacture when the stink of failure is wafting through the air.
- It is best heard wafting from a jukebox or over a glass of whiskey.
- Does Obama expect Hamid Karzai to surge toward Kandahar in 2011, wafting on doves of peace?
- The air was keen and scented, wafting the smell of the wooded islands that hung about us in the darkening air.
- A roll of a drum and the skirl of a fife came wafting across the valley on the April breeze.
- Good heavens, Michael, what Piccadilly breezes are you wafting into my respectable and sacerdotal apartment?
- And the sailing ships, as if cut out of frailest pearl translucency, were wafting away towards Naples.
- I asked, as a delicious breeze from the buffet came wafting by "like a steam of rich distilled perfumes."