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.