whiff
音标：
英音/ wɪf / 美音/ wɪf /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Just off Australia’s largest container port lies a sickle-shaped neighborhood with a scent so distinctive that passing taxi drivers will sometimes roll down their windows for a whiff of the rich and unmistakably beery aroma.
紧邻澳大利亚最大的集装箱港口，有一个镰刀形的街区，其气味非常独特，路过的出租车司机有时会摇下车窗，闻一闻浓郁而明显的啤酒香气。
—New York Times
Even a whiff of corruption could be enough to slow what has been essentially an open spigot of arms, and billions more in humanitarian support and financial aid.
即使是一丝腐败也足以减缓本质上开放的武器，以及数十亿美元的人道主义支持和财政援助。
—New York Times
The government ditching its plan to automatically cull thousands of EU era laws at the end of this year has had the whiff of inevitability about it for time.
政府放弃了在今年年底自动废除数千项欧盟时代法律的计划，这在一段时间以来已经不可避免。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
a short light gust of air
一股气味；臭味；一点点，些许；轻微的迹象（或感觉）；吸（喷）气；（高尔夫球或棒球）挥空棒
同义词：
puff,puff of air,sniff,puff
短释义：
Whiff can be used as either a noun or verb, and it implies a brief or small puff or sniff. A person can have “a whiff of the exotic,” which means they are living like the rest of us, but there is a little something about them that seems foreign or different. Sometimes, of course, odors are so overpowering that a small sniff is all you need: “Take a whiff of this,” your friend might say to you, holding out a carton of sour milk. In that case, one whiff will be more than enough.
气味可能意味着您闻到某种气味。当你开车经过污水处理厂时，突然摇起车窗，通常是因为你闻到了污水处理厂特殊的气味。
长释义：
Whiff can be used as either a noun or verb, and it implies a brief or small puff or sniff. A person can have “a whiff of the exotic,” which means they are living like the rest of us, but there is a little something about them that seems foreign or different. Sometimes, of course, odors are so overpowering that a small sniff is all you need: “Take a whiff of this,” your friend might say to you, holding out a carton of sour milk. In that case, one whiff will be more than enough.
Whiff 可以用作名词或动词，它意味着短暂或小的吹气或嗅嗅。一个人可能有“一丝异国情调”，这意味着他们和我们其他人一样生活，但他们身上有一些东西看起来很陌生或不同。当然，有时候，气味太强烈了，你只需轻轻闻一闻即可：“闻一闻这个，”你的朋友可能会递给你一盒酸牛奶对你说。在这种情况下，吸一口就足够了。
文学例句：
I get my first whiff of the answer in science.
我第一次从科学中得到答案。
—Linked by Gordon Korman
He took a huge whiff of the sweet, perfumed night air.
他深深地吸了一口夜晚的甜甜的、芬芳的空气。
—Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young
The box was long but not heavy, and there was a whiff of perfume coming from it.
盒子虽长，但并不重，里面还散发着一股香水味。
—City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda
词源：
whiff (n.)13c., weffe “foul scent or odor,” of imitative origin. Modern form became popular late 16c. with tobacco smoking, probably influenced by whiffle “blow in gusts or puffs” (1560s). The verb in the baseball slang sense “to swing at a ball and miss” first recorded 1913.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
Whiff (n.)13c., weffe “恶臭或气味”，源自模仿。现代形式在 16 世纪末开始流行。与吸烟有关，可能受到“一阵风或一阵阵的吹气”（1560年代）的口哨声的影响。棒球俚语中的动词“挥击球并错过”首次记录于 1913 年。相关条目及更多
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