1[uncountableU]DBURN white, grey, or black gas that is produced by something burning 〔燃烧产生的〕烟
clouds of black smoke
团团黑烟
cigarette smoke
香烟的烟雾
Smoke from burning fields drifted across nearby roads.
地里燃烧产生的烟雾飘到了附近的公路上。
the pall of smoke (=thick cloud of smoke) that hung over the city
笼罩在城市上空的浓烟
nwisp/puff of smoke (=a small amount of smoke)
nRangers watched from their fire towers for any wisps of smoke.
2[countableC usually singular]SMOKE an act of smoking a cigarette etc 抽(一支)烟
He went outside for a quiet smoke.
他到外面去静静地吸一支烟。
3go up in smoke
a)if something goes up in smoke, it burns so that it is completely destroyed 彻底焚毁,烧光
The whole factory went up in smoke.
整座工厂付之一炬。
b)informalFAIL if a plan or some work goes up in smoke, it fails or you cannot continue with it 〔计划等〕化为泡影,化为乌有
We haven’t worked this long just to see everything go up in smoke.
我们干了这么长时间,可不想看到一切都化为乌有。
Examples from the Corpus
go up in smoke• After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke.• For the yardsowner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke.• That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.• If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke?• Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.• Its mosquewent up in smoke.• Three hundred tons of freshly harvestedhay and strawwent up in smoke.• Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many.
4[countableC] spokenDFTMDDSMOKE a cigarette or drugs that are smoked 〔抽的〕香烟;〔吸的〕毒品
Where are the smokes, Jeff?
杰夫,香烟在哪儿?
5.there’s no smoke without fire (also where there’s smoke there’s fire) spokenTRUERUMOUR/RUMOR used to say that if something bad is being said about someone, it is probably partly true 无火不冒烟;无风不起浪;事出必有因
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there’s no smoke without fire• And if you believethere's no smoke without fire, Sean Young must be a toweringinferno.• But there's no smoke without fire.
6when the smoke clearswhen things have stoppedhappening and the results can be clearly seen 待到烟消云散时
When the smoke clears, I think you'll find the company is in a stronger position.
等到这一切都过去以后,我想你会发现公司将更加强大。
7.the SmokeBritish EnglishBrETOWN old-fashioned informalLondon or any large town or city 〔伦敦之类的〕大城市
wisp/puff of smoke• And yesterday the reaction from most was to blow a puff of smoke into the law's face.• A true old devil, Manson vanishes in a puff of smoke.• Breaths of flame and puffs of smokeleaping from the surroundinghillsides.• One wisp of smoke will not yearn for another.• There are no obvioussigns of engine wear though a small puff of smokeexhausts following a warm start.• We aimed at the puffs of smoke we saw rising in front and on the left of us.• Now and again there was a tinypuff of smoke and the smack of a hand-grenade or a burst of machine-gun fire.• Below, almost straight ahead, white puffs of smoke opened up in the paddies just outside the village.
smoke• Anyone who smokes 40 a day can expect to have a lot of health problems.• Do you smoke?• How old were you when you started smoking?• Sue never smoked a cigarette in her life, yet she still got lungcancer.• Greg sat alone, smoking a cigarette.• She walked back to the emptystation and leaned against the wall, smoking a cigarette.• He sat behind his desk, smoking a fatcigar.• Dana started smoking again when her husband left her.• When you turned the machine on, the plastic started smoking and created an unpleasantodor.• He smokes cigarettes and speeds around on his motorbike with his friends.• She was smoking for twenty-five years.