bluff

1. N-VAR A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it. 虛張聲勢

The letter was a bluff. 這封信是虛張聲勢。

It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff. 重要的是準備軍事解決途徑來證明這并不是虛張聲勢。

2. PHRASE If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it. 要某人攤牌

The socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff. 社會黨人已經(jīng)決定讓反對黨攤牌了。

3. V-T/V-I If you bluff, you make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it. 用…虛張聲勢; 招搖撞騙

Either side, or both, could be bluffing. 任何一方或者雙方都可能是在虛張聲勢。

In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades. 每一次，劫機者都是用假手榴彈騙機組人員。

4. N a steep promontory, bank, or cliff, esp one formed by river erosion on the outside bend of a meander 峭壁; 陡岸

5. ADJ good-naturedly frank and hearty 直率的