nosing

英 [ˈnəʊzɪŋ] 美 [ˈnoʊzɪŋ]

v.  小心翼翼地向前移动; (用鼻子)嗅,拱,顶
nose的现在分词

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柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT 鼻子
    Your nose is the part of your face which sticks out above your mouth. You use it for smelling and breathing.
    1. She wiped her nose with a tissue...
      她用纸巾擦了擦鼻子。
    2. She's got funny eyes and a big nose.
      她有一双古怪的眼睛和一个大鼻子。
  2. N-COUNT (汽车或飞机的)前部;车头;机头
    The nose of a vehicle such as a car or aeroplane is the front part of it.
    1. Sue parked off the main street, with the van's nose pointing away from the street.
      休把小货车停在远离大街的地方,车头背对着大街。
  3. N-COUNT 嗅觉
    You can refer to your sense of smell as your nose .
    1. The river that runs through Middlesbrough became ugly on the eye and hard on the nose.
      穿过米德尔斯伯勒的那条河变得污秽不堪、臭不可闻。
  4. N-SING (赛马中)以一鼻之差
    If a horse wins a race by a nose, it wins by a very small distance.
    1. Chirkpar rattled past him on the right to snatch the prize by a nose.
      一匹名为切厄克帕的赛马从他右侧疾驰而过,以一鼻之差获胜。
  5. V-ERG (使)小心翼翼地缓慢行驶
    If a vehicle noses in a certain direction or if you nose it there, you move it slowly and carefully in that direction.
    1. He could not see the driver as the car nosed forward...
      车慢慢向前开,他却看不见司机。
    2. A motorboat nosed out of the mist and nudged into the branches of a tree...
      一艘摩托艇缓缓驶出薄雾,蹭进一棵树的枝叶中。
    3. Ben drove past them, nosing his car into the garage.
      本小心翼翼地把车开进车库时从他们身边经过。
  6. See also: hard-nosed toffee-nosed
  7. PHRASE 行为规矩;不惹是非
    If you keep your nose clean, you behave well and stay out of trouble.
    1. If you kept your nose clean, you had a job for life.
      如果你规规矩矩,就可以一辈子都捧着这个饭碗。
  8. PHRASE 笔直往前;沿最明显路线
    If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
    1. Just follow your nose and in about five minutes you're at the old railway.
      径直往前开,大约5分钟就能到旧铁路线。
  9. PHRASE 凭直觉行事;凭本能行事
    If you follow your nose, you do something in a particular way because you feel it should be done like that, rather than because you are following any plan or rules.
    1. You won't have to think, just follow your nose.
      你不必思考,跟着你的直觉走。
  10. PHRASE 对…很敏感;很善于发现
    If you say that someone has a nose for something, you mean that they have a natural ability to find it or recognize it.
    1. He had a nose for trouble and a brilliant tactical mind...
      他善于发现问题,还总能想出高明的策略。
    2. Gergen had a great sense of news, a good nose for trends, and a wide range of contacts.
      格根有很强的新闻意识,对潮流嗅觉灵敏,而且人脉很广。
  11. PHRASE 使生气;惹…发火
    If you say that someone or something gets up your nose, you mean that they annoy you.
    1. He's just getting up my nose so much at the moment.
      他这会儿真让我生气。
  12. PHRASE 瞧不起;不把…放在眼里
    If you say that someone looks down their nose at something or someone, you mean that they believe they are superior to that person or thing and treat them with disrespect.
    1. I don't look down my nose at comedy...
      我并不轻视喜剧。
    2. They rather looked down their noses at anyone who couldn't speak French.
      他们相当瞧不起不会说法语的人。
  13. PHRASE 付高价;付出过大代价
    If you say that you paid through the nose for something, you are emphasizing that you had to pay what you consider too high a price for it.
    1. We don't like paying through the nose for our wine when eating out.
      下馆子时,我们不喜欢在酒水上花很多钱。
  14. PHRASE 探问;探看;干预
    If someone pokes their nose into something or sticks their nose into something, they try to interfere with it even though it does not concern them.
    1. We don't like strangers who poke their noses into our affairs...
      我们不喜欢陌生人干预我们的事务。
    2. Why did you have to stick your nose in?
      你为什么非要插手?
  15. PHRASE 反复向…提及(不愉快的事);揭…的疮疤
    To rub someone's nose in something that they do not want to think about, such as a failing or a mistake they have made, means to remind them repeatedly about it.
    1. His enemies will attempt to rub his nose in past policy statements.
      他的对手会试图揪住他过去政策陈述的漏洞不放。
  16. PHRASE 跟别人怄气却害了自己;赌气做出不顾后果的事
    If you say that someone is cutting off their nose to spite their face, you mean they do something that they think will hurt someone, without realizing or caring that it will hurt themselves as well.
    1. There is evidence that the industry's greed means that it is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
      有证据表明该产业的贪婪是在作茧自缚。
  17. PHRASE (车辆)首尾相连
    If vehicles are nose to tail, the front of one vehicle is close behind the back of another.
    1. ...a line of about twenty fast-moving trucks driving nose to tail.
      一排大约20辆首尾相接、快速行驶的卡车
  18. in AM, use 美国英语用 bumper-to-bumper

  19. PHRASE 对…嗤之以鼻;蔑视
    If you thumb your nose at someone, you behave in a way that shows that you do not care what they think.
    1. He has always thumbed his nose at the media.
      他对媒体一直都嗤之以鼻。
  20. PHRASE 对…不屑一顾;嫌弃
    If you turn up your nose at something, you reject it because you think that it is not good enough for you.
    1. I'm not in a financial position to turn up my nose at several hundred thousand pounds.
      我的经济境况使我无法对几十万英镑无动于衷。
  21. PHRASE 当着…的面;在…的眼皮底下
    If you do something under someone's nose, you do it right in front of them, without trying to hide it from them.
    1. Okay so have an affair, but not right under my nose.
      有外遇就有外遇好了,但别在我眼皮底下。
  22. to put someone's nose out of joint → see: joint

双语例句

  1. Ben drove past them, nosing his car into the garage.
    本小心翼翼地把车开进车库时从他们身边经过。
  2. What was he nosing about for?
    他在找什么?
  3. The detective was nosing around in the crowd, looking for pickpockets.
    侦探在人群中搜寻扒手。
  4. Nosing around the other GSP pages shows tags related to HTML forms, such as
    看看其他GSP页面中与HTML表单有关的标记,例如
  5. What is certain is that it was a very stupid animal, for instead of pursuing the ship it turned its head round and began nosing all along its own body as if it expected to find the wreckage of the Dawn Treader there.
    不过有一点是肯定的,这条海蛇非常蠢,因为它没有追这条船,而是掉过头去,开始在自己全身上下嗅探,仿佛以为能找到船的残骸似的。
  6. I wish I could stop him nosing about he's not wanted here.
    我真想有个办法阻止他乱打听,这里没人喜欢他。
  7. I found two men nosing around the boat.
    我发现有两个人在船附近四处张望。
  8. IT firms are nosing their way into the health-care market: Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault both allow consumers to track their health and record their treatments.
    IT公司率先嗅到了进入医疗卫生市场的方法:谷歌的Health和微软的HealthVault都能让消费者跟踪自己的健康情况以及记录治疗情况。
  9. I'm never interested in nosing out the details of someone else's private life.
    我从不喜欢探听别人私生活的细节。
  10. The detective was nosing around in the crowd, looking for pickpockers.
    侦探在人群中搜寻,寻找扒手们。
  11. What happened? I saw some reporters nosing around.
    出了什麽事?我看到有记者在打听消息。
  12. It is not just that economists are nosing into new fields of social behaviour.
    不仅仅是因为经济学家开始探究社会行为等新领域。
  13. There he was, nosing about in my office again.
    他又在我办公室里四处检查。
  14. He hates the way her mother goes nosing around the house each time she visits them.
    他恨她母亲每次去看他们时,总喜欢在家里东找西寻的。
  15. However, blatant Brown-nosing makes you repulsive to your colleagues and the new boss may not like the sight either.
    不过,明着拍马或许会让你的同事反感,新老板或许也不喜欢此番景象。
  16. The old lady was nosing about the house, looking for dust.
    老太太四处检查,看看有没有灰尘。
  17. A few kids were nosing around.
    一些孩子正四处探听消息。
  18. Whenever and wherever possible, they go nosing around for our shortcomings which they use as pretexts for sabotage.
    他们随时随地寻找我们的缺点,作为他们进行破坏活动的借口。
  19. Sally spent a while nosing about for the old family pictures.
    莎丽花了一段时间在祖母的顶楼寻找家里的旧照片。
  20. A police car came nosing silently along the street.
    一辆警车静悄悄地沿着马路缓缓行驶。
  21. He is fond of nosing about for grapevine news.
    他热衷于四处打听小道消息。
  22. From a dark corner of the slum a shadow was creeping silently out, like a thieving little dog nosing around, trying to find an unguarded break in the police cordon.
    从这草棚区域的阴深处,一个黑影子悄悄地爬出来,像偷食的小狗似的嗅着,嗅着,&要嗅出那警戒网的疏薄点。
  23. The ship was nosing a way through the ice pack.
    轮船小心地通过大块浮冰。
  24. The technical characteristics of duster of sinter machine nosing in Tiangang Company are introduced.
    介绍了天钢烧结机机头除尘器的技术特点。
  25. The dog kept nosing about the room this morning.
    这狗今天在屋里不断地闻来闻去。
  26. Stay outside the door and see that no one comes nosing around.
    你留在门外,注意别让什么人过来探头探脑。
  27. I looked at her. I was nosing about information and didn't expect she could truly answer me.
    我望着月娘,探听情报,实则并不指望她会真的回答我。
  28. There were some police detectives nosing around.
    几名警探正在四处探查。
  29. I disposed of one of the rats that came nosing round the hut.
    我把到小屋来嗅着觅食的老鼠打死了一只。
  30. The dogs are nosing after their quarry.
    那些狗正在搜寻猎物。