huff
音标：
美音：/hʌf/，英音：/hʌf/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Of course, any party’s backbenches are almost constitutionally set up to be in a huff.
当然，任何政党的后座议员几乎都按照宪法设置为怒不可遏。
—BBC
At this point, all they can do is huff and puff.
到了这个地步，他们能做的也只有气喘吁吁了。
—Washington Times
“I have crossed the Gulf Stream ten times,” he wrote — evidently in a huff — “& should know something about it.”
“我已经十次穿越墨西哥湾暖流，”他写道——显然是气呼呼的——“而且应该对此有所了解。”
—Washington Post
基本释意：
noun
a state of irritation or annoyance
v. 生气地说；把……吹胀，吹气；发怒，激怒；蔑视；恫吓；嗅（汽油、溶剂）作为兴奋剂；（国际跳棋中）取掉（对方本可吃棋的棋子）
同义词：
miff,seeing red,chuff,puff,snort
短释义：
If you’re in a huff, you’re visibly annoyed or offended. Another kind of huff is to exhale. When the Big Bad Wolf was in a huff, he threatened, “Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in!”
如果你怒气冲冲，你会明显感到恼火或被冒犯。另一种呼气是呼气。大灰狼气急败坏，威胁道：“那我一吹，一吹，把你的房子给炸了！”
长释义：
People tend to flounce out of a room in a huff or storm away in a huff. If your soccer coach calls you off the field for being unsportsmanlike, you might be tempted to stomp off in a huff, convincing her that she was right. You could also describe this state as being “miffed” or “in a snit” or “in a fit of pique.” In all cases, your irritation is obvious. Another meaning of huff is to exhale or blow loudly, especially from exertion. At the end of a marathon, you might huff and puff with exhaustion, but you’ll be glad to pass the finish line.
人们往往会一怒之下冲出房间或一怒之下冲走。如果你的足球教练因为你没有体育道德而要求你离开球场，你可能会气喘吁吁地跺脚离开，让她相信她是对的。您也可以将这种状态描述为“生气”或“发脾气”或“生气”。在所有情况下，你的恼怒都是显而易见的。 huff 的另一个意思是大声呼气或吹气，尤其是在用力时。马拉松比赛结束时，您可能会精疲力竭地喘着粗气，但您会很高兴能通过终点线。
文学例句：
He comes in and sits cross-legged on the mat with me, breath huffing with the effort of lowering himself to the floor.
他进来，和我一起盘腿坐在垫子上，呼吸急促，努力将自己放低到地板上。
—A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
The crowds of novices being escorted to the top for a fee, huffed Sir Edmund, “were engendering disrespect for the mountain.”
埃德蒙爵士怒气冲冲地说，成群结队的新手被收费护送到山顶，“这是对这座山的不尊重。”
—Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
It was a deep, powerful, huffing roar, amazing for an animal normally as silent as a giraffe.
这是一种深沉、有力、气喘吁吁的吼叫，对于像长颈鹿这样通常沉默寡言的动物来说是惊人的。
—Life of Pi by Yann Martel
词源：
huff (v.)mid-15c., apparently imitative of forcible exhaling. Extended sense of “to bluster with arrogance or indignation” is attested from 1590s. Related: Huffed; huffing. As a slang term for a type of narcotics abuse, by 1996. Huff cap was 17c. slang for “swaggerer, blusterer” (i.e., one with an inflated head), and was noted in 1577 among the popular terms for “strong beer or ale” (with mad dog and dragon’s milk), probably because it goes to the head and huffs one’s cap.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
huff (v.)mid-15c., 显然模仿用力呼气。从 1590 年代就证明了“以傲慢或愤慨而咆哮”的扩展意义。相关：怒吼；气呼呼的。作为一种滥用麻醉剂的俚语，到 1996 年。Huff cap 是 17c。俚语，意思是“狂妄自大，虚张声势”（即头部膨胀的人），并在 1577 年被称为“烈性啤酒或啤酒”（带有疯狗和龙奶）的流行术语，可能是因为它会冲到头部和huffs one’s cap.相关条目及更多
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