blow

vt.
1. drive a current of air upon,blow upon,blow to（风）吹向，吹进，吹到。
△Mac.1.3. 14:“I myself have allthe other,/ And the very ports they blow，”我自己会招来八方的风，还知道风吹向的各个海港。
2. sound (a horn) 吹响（号角）。
△3H.Ⅵ.2.1.42s.d :“Enter a Messenger blowing a horn. ”i.e. announcingthe arrival of an express rider or post. 号角响，一使者上。
3. blow out,puff up,inflate,make swell(with pride)吹胀，吹捧，使膨胀，使骄傲自大。
△Tw.2.5.48(42):“Look how imagination blows him.”瞧，想像使他多么得意忘形。
△H.Ⅴ.3.6.163(151):“This your air ofFrance/Hath blown that vice (i.e. of bragging) in me.”你们法国的空气把我的这个罪过吹得膨胀起来了。
△H.Ⅴ.4.1.273 (253):“Think’st thou the fiery feverwill go out/With titles blown from adulation?”难道你以为靠着那些被阿谀奉承者所吹捧出来的荣衔，火烫似的发烧就会消退吗？
4. warm by breathing on向…哈气使暖和。
△L.L.L.5.2.920(912):“When icicles hang by the wall,/ And Dick the Shepherd blows his nail.”当冰柱在墙头上悬吊，羊倌狄克呵着他的指甲。
5. cast,scatter,(of flies) deposit their eggs on投掷，散布，（苍蝇）在…上产卵。
△L.L.L.5.2. 409 (408): “thesesummer flies/Have blown me full of maggot ostenta-tion.”i.e.These summer flies have deposited on metheir eggs,which have hatched into the maggots ofvanity. 这些夏天的苍蝇给我下满了蛆虫似的虚饰。
6. summon,as the effect of sounding （以号声）召集。
△2H.Ⅳ.4.1.122(120): “And the loud trumpet blo-wing them together；”响亮的号声把他们召集在 一起。
7. blow up,blast,blow out of the way轰炸，炸，轰开。
△H.Ⅷ.5.4.48(5.3.45):“he stands there,like a mortarpiece,to blow us.”他站在那儿，像一尊臼炮，轰击我们。
～vi.
1.pant,puff喘气，喷气。
△Wiv.3.3.93(85):“here’sMistress Page at the door,sweating,and blowing,andlooking wildly，”裴琪太太到门口来了，满头大汗，气喘吁吁，张皇四顾。
2. (of flowers) bloom,blossom,flourish（花）开放，盛开。
△Mid.2.1.249: “I know a bank where the wildthyme blows，” 我知道有一条河岸，生满了野麝香草。
△L.L.L.5.2.294 (293): “Blow like sweet roses inthis summer air.”要像娇艳的玫瑰在夏日盛开。
△Gent.11.46:“ere it blow，”在它开放之前。