美 [pʌf aʊt]
充气使某物变得更大、更圆
（风）吹起，（帆）鼓起
... blow out 吹灭(突然爆裂... puff out 使膨胀 respire 〈正式或文〉（人）呼吸...
... powder puff粉扑 puff out吹灭；（使）膨胀；气喘吁吁地说 puff up使肿胀 ...
吹灭；（使）膨胀；气喘吁吁地说
He managed to puff out a few words.
他气喘吁吁地说了几句话。
He managed to puff out a few words.
他喘息着说出几句话。
Did any smoke puff out from this machine?
从这台机器里冒出过烟来吗？
The flame went out in a puff of gray smoke.
VOA : special.2010.05.01
You either go into a shell or you puff your chest out, take it on the chin and get on with it.
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When she speaks, she says she literally runs of out puff after a few minutes and needs to take a moment to recover with a few deep breaths.
Besides, the baroness herself ran out of puff after her industrial privatisations: she never seriously tried to prise the welfare state out of public hands, and only just succeeded in slowing the growth of overall state spending.