breeze

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n. 微风, 煤屑, 轻而易举的事 vi. 吹微风, 逃走

发音

US /bɹiːz/
AU /bɹiːz/

词形变化

breezes 复数 breezes 三单 breezing 现在分词 breezed 过去式 breezed 过去分词

别名

brize briess breese

释义与例句

n. A2
  1. 1.

    A light, gentle wind.

    微风

    和风

    清风

    轻风

    The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.

  2. 2.

    Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

    比喻

    After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.

  3. 3.

    Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.

    体育 游戏
  4. 4.

    An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.

    The discovery produced a breeze.

  5. 5.

    A brief workout for a racehorse.

  6. 1.

    A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.

    不及物
  7. 1.

    Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.

    不及物
v.
  1. 1.

    To move casually, in a carefree manner.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To blow gently.

    不及物 气象
  3. 3.

    To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.

    不及物
  5. 1.

    To buzz.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

air snap picnic cinch pushover zephyr child's play duck soup piece of cake walkover

上位词 6

wind project task labor labour undertaking

下位词 9

breath doddle fresh breeze gentle breeze light air light breeze moderate breeze sea breeze strong breeze
动词

上位词 5

go move blow travel locomote

参见 1

breeze through

相关短语

shoot the breeze 吹牛, 闲谈 breeze up 加大风力,越刮越大 breeze through 轻松地做 breeze past breeze off 住嘴不说, 离去, 走开 breeze-block n. 轻型建筑用砖 coke breeze [机] 碎焦炭 sea breeze n. （白天吹向内陆的）海风 land breeze shoots the breeze shooting the breeze shot the breeze bat the breeze 闲聊,闲扯,吹牛 Malibu bay breeze mackerel breeze

词源

From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure. Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”). The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and French brise, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a modification of Old Occitan bisa (“strong wind”), which is not widely accepted. Compare also Albanian breshër (“hail”).

来源：wiktionary