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the grey, white or black gas that is produced by something burning 烟 cigarette/tobacco smoke 香烟/烟草烟雾 Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the area. 可以看到黑烟从该地区升起。 The explosion sent a huge cloud of smoke into the sky. 爆炸把一大团烟吹向天空。 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. 他的眼睛被火冒出的烟刺痛了。 The smoke from their cigarettes curled upwards. 他们香烟冒出的烟袅袅上升。 The majority of people who die in fires die of smoke inhalation. 大多数死于火灾的人死于吸入烟雾。 Check your smoke detectors for dead batteries. 检查你的烟雾探测器是否有电池没电。 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 environmenta2Blue 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
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- cloud
- column
- haze
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- belch
- belch out
- blow
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- belch
- billow
- come
- …
- plume
- ring
- signal
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- go up in smoke
- full of smoke
- thick with smoke
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- [countable, usually singular] (informal)
an act of smoking a cigarette 吸烟；抽烟 - 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, taboo, 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 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. 争端早日结束的希望化为泡影。
(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 冒烟： 用不重要或不相关的信息隐藏事实There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in the financing of this film. 这部电影的融资有很多问题。
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