out of puff

常见例句

双语例句

• 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。

原声例句

• The flame went out in a puff of gray smoke.

权威例句

• 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
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