smoke
noun/sməʊk/
/sməʊk/
Idioms - [uncountable] the grey, white or black gas that is produced by something burning
烟 - cigarette/tobacco smoke
香烟／烟草产生的烟 - Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the area.
可以看到从该地升起缕缕黑烟。 - The explosion sent a huge cloud of smoke into the sky.
爆炸产生一团巨大的烟雾，升入空中。 - Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
从汽车排气管冒出一股股黑色浓烟。 - smoke from something His eyes were smarting from the smoke from the fire.
他的眼睛因火灾产生的烟雾而刺痛。 - The smoke from their cigarettes curled upwards.
他们的香烟冒出的烟雾袅袅上升。 - The majority of people who die in fires die of smoke inhalation.
大部分死于火灾的人是由于吸入了烟雾。 - Check your smoke detectors for dead batteries.
检查烟雾探测器的电池是否耗尽。 - The witch disappeared in a puff of smoke.
女巫消失在一缕青烟中。 - I can definitely smell smoke.
我绝对能闻到烟味。
Extra ExamplesTopics The environmenta2- Blue smoke curled up from her cigarette.
一缕蓝烟从她的香烟上袅袅升起。 - Don't blow smoke in my face!
别朝我脸上喷烟！ - Hundreds of people die each year as a result of exposure to second-hand smoke.
每年有数百人死于吸二手烟。 - I taught myself to blow smoke rings.
我自己学会了吐烟圈。 - The club had a smoke machine and laser show.
俱乐部有烟雾器和激光表演。 - When the smoke cleared we saw the extent of the damage.
浓烟散尽后，我们才看到破坏的程度。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dense
- heavy
- thick
- …
- cloud
- column
- haze
- …
- belch
- belch out
- blow
- …
- belch
- billow
- come
- …
- plume
- ring
- signal
- …
- go up in smoke
- full of smoke
- thick with smoke
- …
- cigarette/tobacco smoke
- [countable, usually singular] (informal) an act of smoking a cigarette
吸烟；抽烟 - Are you coming outside for a smoke?
你是不是出来抽支烟？ - He's in the back garden having a smoke.
他在后花园抽烟。
- Are you coming outside for a smoke?
- the Smoke(also the big smoke)[singular] (British English, informal) London, or another large city
伦敦；大城市
Word OriginOld English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan ‘emit smoke’; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch.
Idioms
blow smoke (up somebody’s ass)
- (North American English, offensive, slang) to try to trick somebody or lie to somebody, particularly by saying something is better than it really is
吹牛皮；说大话蒙人
go up in smoke
- to be completely burnt
被烧毁；被烧光 - The whole house went up in smoke.
整座房子被烧毁了。
- The whole house went up in smoke.
- if your plans, hopes, etc. go up in smoke, they fail completely
告吹；成泡影；破灭 - Hopes of an early end to the dispute have gone up in smoke.
早日结束争端的希望已经化为泡影。
- Hopes of an early end to the dispute have gone up in smoke.
(there is) no smoke without fire (British English)
(North American English where there’s smoke, there’s fire)
- (saying) if something bad is being said about somebody/something, it usually has some truth in it
无火不生烟；无风不起浪
smoke and mirrors
- the fact of hiding the truth with information that is not important or relevant
迷雾幻镜；障眼法 - There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in the financing of this film.
这部电影的融资方面有许多云里雾里的东西。
- There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in the financing of this film.
a smoke-filled room
- (disapproving) a decision that people describe as being made in a smoke-filled room is made by a small group of people at a private meeting, rather than in an open and democratic way
（少数人密谋决策的）密室