smoke

smoke
noun

[mass noun]a visible suspension of carbon or other particles in air, typically one emitted from a burning substance
（尤指燃烧物散发的）烟
bonfire smoke.
篝火烟。
■[count noun]an act of smoking tobacco
抽烟
I'm dying for a smoke.
我非常想抽根烟。
■[count noun](informal)a cigarette or cigar
(非正式)香烟；雪茄
(the Smoke)(Brit. dated)a big city, especially London
(英，旧)大城市（尤指伦敦）
she was offered a job in the Smoke.
她在伦敦找了份工作。

verb

[noobj.]emit smoke or visible vapour
冒烟，冒气
heat the oil until it just smokes.
油加热到冒烟。
■inhale and exhale the smoke of tobacco or a drug
吸烟；吸毒品
Janine was sitting at the kitchen table smoking.
简奈恩坐在厨房桌旁，抽着烟。
[asnoun smoking]the effect of smoking on health.
吸烟对健康的影响。
[with obj.]he smoked forty cigarettes a day.
他一天抽四十根香烟。
[withobj.][often asadj. smoked]cure or preserve (meat or fish) by exposure to smoke
熏制（肉，鱼）
smoked salmon.
熏鲑鱼。
■treat (glass) so as to darken it
（玻璃）用烟熏黑或染成烟灰色
the smoked glass of his lenses.
他的烟灰色玻璃镜片。
■fumigate, cleanse, or purify by exposure to smoke
烟熏消毒
■subdue (insects, especially bees) by exposing them to smoke
用烟熏法制服（昆虫，尤指蜜蜂）
■(smoke someone/thing out)drive someone or something out of a place by using smoke
用烟把人（或物）熏出来
we will fire the roof and smoke him out.
我们会点燃屋顶，把他给熏出来。
■(smoke someone out)(figurative)force someone to make something known
(喻)强使某人把某事公之于众
as the press smokes him out on other human rights issues, he will be revealed as a social conservative.
当报界迫使他说出在其他人权问题上的立场时，他会露出自己社会保守派的真面目。
[with obj.](N. Amer. informal)kill (someone) by shooting
(北美，非正式)开枪杀死（某人）
■defeat overwhelmingly in a fight or contest
（战斗或竞赛中）以绝对优势胜利
[with obj.](archaic)make fun of (someone)
(古)取笑（某人）
we baited her and smoked her.
我们引她上钩，又取笑她。

常用词组
go up in smoke

(informal)be destroyed by fire
(非正式)被焚毁
■(figurative)(of a plan) come to nothing
(喻)（计划）失败，破灭
more than one dream is about to go up in smoke.
不止一个梦想将要破灭。

no smoke without fire (或where there's smoke there's fire)

(proverb)there's always some reason for a rumour
(谚)无火不生烟，无风不起浪

smoke and mirrors

(N. Amer.)the obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a situation with misleading or irrelevant information
(北美)（用误导或无关的信息）掩饰真相，障眼法
the budget process is an exercise in smoke and mirrors.
预算程序不过是在施障眼法。

smoke like a chimney

smoke tobacco incessantly
不停地吸烟

派生
smokable
adjective

(亦作smokeable)

语源

Old English smoca (noun), smocian (verb), from the Germanic base of smēocan 'emit smoke'; related to Dutch smook and German Schmauch

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