大家好,欢迎来的饼哥英语的频道,今天我们分享一个非常有用且地道的表达——smoke out, 这个短语的含义不是指“去外面抽烟”,其正确的含义是:
smoke out 用烟把(动物或人)熏/赶出;使…公诸于世,查出
There will be a tougher approach to smoking out (= finding) tax dodgers.
将会有更强的措施来查出逃税者。
The terrorists are in the center of the building, and will surely kill any officers who try to enter. I think our best bet is to try to smoke them out.
Back on the farm, we used to smoke out rats by running a hose from the exhaust pipe of our pickup truck into their nest.
在农场的时候,我们用把老鼠用烟熏出来的方法是,从皮卡的排气管里往老鼠的巢穴里放一根水管。
The groundskeeper smoked out the gopher.
管理员把地鼠用烟熏出来了。
The police smoked the fugitives out of their hideout.
警察把逃犯从他们的藏身处熏了出来。