1HBHif you sneeze, air suddenly comes from your nose, making a noise, for example when you have a cold 打喷嚏
She started coughing and sneezing.
她开始咳嗽、打喷嚏。
The dust was making him sneeze.
灰尘使他打起了喷嚏。
2not to be sneezed atBritish EnglishBrE, nothing to sneeze at American English spokenGOOD ENOUGH used about an offer, especially of money, that is very good, and which you should consider carefully 不可轻视,值得认真考虑
In those days, £5 an hour was not to be sneezed at.
sneeze• I completedtidying the loft, sneezing a few times as the goldenspace filled with motes of shiningdust.• People were sneezing all over the place as if it were the heart of allergyseason.• Once he came back sneezing and coughing.• A lot of them were here, because a free meal is not to be sneezed at.• Not content with simply being breathed into the atmosphere, the virus makes us sneeze or cough explosively.• My tension level was so high that I was bound to sneeze or cough or groan or cackle maniacally.• I sneezed right on to the food.• When you cough or sneeze, you propel some tinyparticles into the air.
ADVERB | VERB + SNEEZE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADVERB➤loudly大聲打噴嚏◇Someone sneezed loudly at the back of the hall.有人在禮堂後面大聲地打噴嚏。➤violently使勁打噴嚏➤uncontrollably控制不住地打噴嚏VERB + SNEEZE➤cause sb to, make sb使某人打噴嚏◇The smoke reached her and made her sneeze.煙飄過來,搞得她直打噴嚏。PREPOSITION➤on朝⋯打噴嚏◇I sneezed on him.我朝他打了個噴嚏。PHRASES➤coughing and sneezing咳嗽和打噴嚏◇Viruses can be spread through coughing and sneezing.病毒可以通過咳嗽和打噴嚏傳播。➤the urge to sneeze想打噴嚏◇She suddenly felt the urge to sneeze.她突然想打噴嚏。