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waft

verb
🔊/wɒft/
🔊/wɑːft/, 🔊/wæft/
[intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they waft
🔊/wɒft/
🔊/wɑːft/, 🔊/wæft/
he / she / it wafts
🔊/wɒfts/
🔊/wɑːfts/, 🔊/wæfts/
past simple wafted
🔊/ˈwɒftɪd/
🔊/ˈwɑːftɪd/, 🔊/ˈwæftɪd/
past participle wafted
🔊/ˈwɒftɪd/
🔊/ˈwɑːftɪd/, 🔊/ˈwæftɪd/
-ing form wafting
🔊/ˈwɒftɪŋ/
🔊/ˈwɑːftɪŋ/, 🔊/ˈwæftɪŋ/
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  1. to move, or make something move, gently through the air（随风）飘荡；使飘荡；吹拂 synonym drift
    • + adv./prep. The sound of their voices wafted across the lake.他们的声音飘过湖面传到了另一边。🔊🔊
    • Delicious smells wafted up from the kitchen.香喷喷的味道从厨房飘了出来。🔊🔊
    • waft something + adv./prep. The scent of the flowers was wafted along by the breeze.微风传花香。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • A scent of honey wafted up from the hives.一股蜂蜜的香味从蜂房里飘上来。
    • Spicy smells wafted through the air.空中飘来一阵阵浓烈的气味。
    • The night air wafted gently over them.晚风轻轻地吹拂着他们。
    • The scent of the flowers was wafted through the window by the breeze.花香随微风透窗而入。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • gently
    • slowly
    • around
    • …
    preposition
    • across
    • down
    • from
    • …
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    Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘escort a ship’): back-formation from obsolete wafter (used only by opponents of the practice) ‘armed convoy vessel’, from Low German, Dutch wachter, from wachten ‘to guard’. A sense ‘convey by water’ gave rise to the current use of the verb.

waft

noun
🔊/wɒft/
🔊/wɑːft/, 🔊/wæft/
(formal)
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  1. a smell or a line of smoke carried through the air一阵，一股（在空气中飘荡的味或烟）
    • wafts of perfume/smoke阵阵香气；缕缕青烟
    Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘escort a ship’): back-formation from obsolete wafter (used only by opponents of the practice) ‘armed convoy vessel’, from Low German, Dutch wachter, from wachten ‘to guard’. A sense ‘convey by water’ gave rise to the current use of the verb.