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N-VAR
欺騙；誤導(dǎo)；嚇唬；虛張聲勢
A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
例句
The letter was a bluff...
這封信不過是嚇唬人罷了。
It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff...
關(guān)鍵是要做好采取軍事行動(dòng)的準(zhǔn)備，以表明這不是虛張聲勢。
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PHRASE
（因料到對(duì)方不敢行動(dòng)而）要求…攤牌，接受…的挑戰(zhàn)
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.
例句
The Socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff.
社會(huì)黨人已經(jīng)決定接受對(duì)方的挑戰(zhàn)。
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VERB
欺騙；誤導(dǎo)；嚇唬；虛張聲勢
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.
例句
Either side, or both, could be bluffing...
任何一方，或者雙方，都可能是在故弄玄虛。
In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades...
每一個(gè)案例中，劫機(jī)者都用了假手榴彈嚇唬機(jī)組人員。
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N-COUNT
（尤指河邊或海邊的）懸崖，峭壁，陡岸
A bluff is a steep cliff or bank, especially by a river or the sea.
例句
...a high bluff over the Congaree River.
康加里河邊高聳的峭壁
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ADJ-GRADED
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.
例句
He comes across as a man with a bluff exterior who, beyond that, is difficult to get to know...
他給人感覺是一個(gè)直來直去的人，但內(nèi)心卻讓人捉摸不透。
He has continued to write with a bluff, vivid humour about Yorkshire life.
他繼續(xù)用一種直白而又詼諧生動(dòng)的筆觸描繪著約克郡的生活。