bluffed

英 [blʌft]

美 [blʌft]

v.  虚张声势; 唬人; 吹牛
bluff的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• See also:The letter was a bluff...It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff...What we're at here is a game of bluff.double bluff
• PHRASE （因料到对方不敢行动而）要求…摊牌，接受…的挑战
  If youcallsomeone'sbluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
  1. The Socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff.
     社会党人已经决定接受对方的挑战。
• VERB 欺骗；误导；吓唬；虚张声势
  If youbluff, you make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.
  1. Either side, or both, could be bluffing...
     任何一方，或者双方，都可能是在故弄玄虚。
  2. In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades...
     每一个案例中，劫机者都用了假手榴弹吓唬机组人员。
  3. He tried to bluff his way through another test and failed it.
     他试图再次在考试中蒙混过关，但却露馅了。
• N-COUNT （尤指河边或海边的）悬崖，峭壁，陡岸
  Abluffis a steep cliff or bank, especially by a river or the sea.
  1. ...a high bluff over the Congaree River.
     康加里河边高耸的峭壁
• ADJ-GRADED 坦率的；坦白的；直言的
  If you describe someone, usually a man, asbluff, you mean that they have a very direct way of speaking and behaving.
  1. He comes across as a man with a bluff exterior who, beyond that, is difficult to get to know...
     他给人感觉是一个直来直去的人，但内心却让人捉摸不透。
  2. He has continued to write with a bluff, vivid humour about Yorkshire life.
     他继续用一种直白而又诙谐生动的笔触描绘着约克郡的生活。

双语例句

• He bluffed me into believing that his coat was made of tiger skin.
  他想骗我相信他的大衣是虎皮做的。
• Did the movie producer have the courage not to be bluffed?
  这个电影制作人有没有能力承受住恐吓？
• In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades
  每一个案例中，劫机者都用了假手榴弹吓唬机组人员。
• You just bluffed to prove to me that you could bluff.
  你刚忽悠着向我证明你能忽悠。
• He was too strong a man to be bluffed.
  他很坚强，不会被虚张声势吓到。
• Try to influence the person who has prejudice about you or the person who ever bluffed you.
  适当的去感化对你有偏见的人，抑或是欺骗过你的人。
• Those people slapped together an outfit and under the pretence of collecting for charity, bluffed and cheated their way around.
  几个人搭了个草台班子，打着慈善捐款的幌子到处招摇撞骗。
• The landscapes in the residential areas are a source of unhappiness for43.2 percent of the respondents, and about one-third say they were "bluffed" into buying "third grade" houses.
  的受访者对小区景观不满意，约三分之一的人说他们“上了当”，买了“三流”的房子。
• He was too clever a man to be bluffed.
  他是个很灵的人，不会为虚张声势所吓倒。（有时态变化）
• I could have bluffed that fellow down.
  我本可以继续下注唬倒那个家伙。