out of puff
基本解释
- 气喘吁吁
英汉例句
- He loves her but said to me, love me, want to forgive, but out of puff.
他爱着她却对我说爱我，想原谅，却力不从心。 - The New Labour model, which aimed at social justice paid for by the fruits of more or less free-market capitalism, ran out of puff roughly when the money did.
新工党模式，旨在将资本主义近于自由的市场成就用于偿付社会公正，当其财力不支时，这个模式也走到尽头了。 - Earlier this year, a study revealed that one in five of us has inherited 'unfitness genes' that mean no matter how often we pound the treadmill, we'll still be out of puff.
今年年初，一项研究表明，有1/5的人遗传了“非健康基因”，这意味着无论我们多么频繁的锻炼，我们身体仍然不够好。 - The flame went out in a puff of gray smoke.
- The government used to be keen on overhauling education but it has run out of puff.
ECONOMIST: The state of Britain - The extravagantly far-right demagogue, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has run out of puff.
ECONOMIST: Boris Yeltsin’s unruly brood - The fight against corruption is also out of puff: it was made clear this week that self-exiled Bettino Craxi, a former prime minister hitherto wanted on several charges, would face none if he came home.
ECONOMIST: Unchanging Italy