waft

• vt. 使飘荡；吹送
• n. 飘荡；吹拂
• vi. 飘荡

词源不详，可能来自wave变体，波浪，引申义飘荡。

1. a long flag; often tapering

waft

waft: [16] A wafter was an ‘armed ship used for convoying others’ (the word was borrowed from Middle Dutch wachter ‘guard’, which came from the same prehistoric Germanic base as English wait, wake, and watch). The verb waft was derived from it by back-formation, and at first was used for ‘convey by water, convoy’ (‘Because certain pirates … were lurking at the Thames mouth … Thomas Lord Camoys with certain ships of war was appointed to waft over the king’, Edward Hall, Chronicle 1548). The change from ‘conveyance by water’ to ‘conveyance through the air’ began in the 17th century.
=> wait, wake, watch

waft (v.)

c. 1500, transitive, "to move gently" (through the air), probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, ultimately from wachten "to guard" (perhaps via notion of a ship that guards another as it sails), related to waken "rouse from sleep," from Proto-Germanic *waht- (see wake (n.1)). Possibly influenced by northern dialect waff "cause to move to and fro" (1510s), a variant of wave. Intransitive sense from 1560s. Related: Wafted; wafting.

The sound of their voices wafted across the lake.

他们的声音飘过湖面传到了另一边。

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Delicious smells wafted up from the kitchen.

香喷喷的味道从厨房飘了出来。

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The scent of the flowers was wafted along by the breeze.

微风传花香。

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wafts of perfume/smoke

阵阵香气；缕缕青烟

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The scent of climbing roses wafts through the window...

藤本月季的芳香飘进了窗户。

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The music from the party wafts out to the terrace...

晚会的音乐飘到了外面的露台上。

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A waft of perfume can revitalize, cleanse , chan ge how you feel and even as individual.

香水飘来的味道可以让人重新充满活力, 精神为之一振,心情得到改变,甚至可以让你独特的个人风格得到张扬.

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The bubble maker is like a sword that you waft in the air.

吹出泡泡的东西就像你在空中挥舞的一把剑.

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When she just about fall over, a waft of fragrance makes her stop.

在她差点跌倒时, 一股幽香让她停下脚步.

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Better still , Mr Sarkozy seems unafraid of the ideas that waft across the Atlantic.

更妙的是萨科奇似乎并不在意漂过大西洋.

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So odds are slim they'll waft up to a human nose and fuel sudden passion nightclub.

所以,信息素飘入人的鼻子、加夜总会中顾客“性趣”的可能性微乎其微.

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Be that as it would smoke together waft in the wind, with my soul.

也罢,就让它随着烟雾,一起飘散在风中, 带着我的灵魂.

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A good year , which this is, of course, will waft.

像这样,好年份产的酒, 当然十里飘香.

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A waft of perfume drifted into Ingrid's nostrils.

一股香水味飘进了英格丽德的鼻子里。

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