3PHRASE (因料到对方不敢行动而)要求…摊牌,接受…的挑战 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. (因料到对方不敢行动而)要求…摊牌,接受…的挑战
The Socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff.
社会党人已经决定接受对方的挑战。
4VERB 欺骗;误导;吓唬;虚张声势 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. 欺骗;误导;吓唬;虚张声势
Either side, or both, could be bluffing. [VERB]
任何一方,或者双方,都可能是在故弄玄虚。
In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades. [VERB noun]
每一个案例中,劫机者都用了假手榴弹吓唬机组人员。
He tried to bluff his way through another test and failed it. [Vway prep]
6ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n]坦率的;坦白的;直言的 If you describe someone, usually a man, as bluff, you mean that they have a very direct way of speaking and behaving. 坦率的;坦白的;直言的
He comes across as a man with a bluff exterior who, beyond that, is difficult to get to know.
他给人感觉是一个直来直去的人,但内心却让人捉摸不透。
He has continued to write with a bluff, vivid humour about Yorkshire life.