1 N-UNCOUNT 烟 Smoke consists of gas and small bits of solid material that are sent into the air when something burns. 烟
SYN fumes
2 VERB 冒烟 If something is smoking, smoke is coming from it. 冒烟
3 VERB 吸(烟);抽(烟) When someone smokes a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, they suck the smoke from it into their mouth and blow it out again. If you smoke, you regularly smoke cigarettes, cigars, or a pipe. 吸(烟);抽(烟)
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He was sitting alone, smoking a big cigar. [VERB noun]
他独自坐在那儿，抽着一只大雪茄。
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It's not easy to quit smoking cigarettes. [VERB noun]
戒烟并非易事。
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Do you smoke? [VERB]
您抽烟吗？
4 VERB [usually passive] 熏制(鱼、肉等) If fish or meat is smoked, it is hung over burning wood so that the smoke preserves it and gives it a special flavour. 熏制(鱼、肉等)
5 See also: smoked smoking
6 PHRASE 无风不起浪 If someone says there's no smoke without fire or where there's smoke there's fire, they mean that there are rumours or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true. 无风不起浪
7 PHRASE 被焚毁;被烧掉;被付之一炬 If something goes up in smoke, it is destroyed by fire. 被焚毁;被烧掉;被付之一炬
8 PHRASE 以失败告终;一事无成 If something that is very important to you goes up in smoke, it fails or ends without anything being achieved. 以失败告终;一事无成
Quotations
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake Mark Twain 70th birthday speech
| Word Partnership | Use smoke with: |
| ADJ. | black smoke, dense smoke, heavy smoke, secondhand smoke, thick smoke 1 |
| N. | cigarette smoke, cloud of smoke, smoke damage, smoke from a fire, smoke inhalation, smell of smoke, tobacco smoke 1 smoke a cigar/cigarette, smoke tobacco 3 |
| VERB. | see smoke, smell smoke 1 smoke and drink 3 |
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