Gwen jutted her chin forward, her nose in the air, and did not bother to answer the teacher.

格温向前扬起下巴，鼻孔朝天，懒得答复那个老师。

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He has his nose in the air.

他有他的鼻子在天空中。

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Tom: you have always got your nose in the air, which hurts many boys' hearts.

汤姆：你总是目中无人，这伤了多少男孩的心啊。

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He has a "big head." A person who is filled with his own importance and pride is said to have "his nose in the air.

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He has his nose in the air.

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If the second foot has more speed than the first, the dancer looks like he is buoyantly moving up even as he is landing like a jet with its nose in the air as it is landing.

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The next stage sees air sucked in through the nose of the turbine via a device known as an "air blower".

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About half the rockets suffer some kind of catastrophic failure in the air, usually when a nose cone fails to separate properly or the parachute doesn't deploy.

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