He took a puff at his cigarette.

他吸了一口香烟。

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They may huff and puff at the media circus, as reporters constantly ask their views on this or that candidate.

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With a puff of white smoke at the Vatican on Oct. 16, 1978, a Polish cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla was chosen as the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years.

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