| 单词 | smell |
| 释义 | smell I. transitive verb 1. a. < smelt growing things in the park — Ellen Glasgow > b. < smell stew cooking > < smell each perfume offered for sale > 2. < the censors smelled sex in every realistic literary creation — O.S.J.Gogarty > < very few fail to smell the tension and the fear in the air of its cities — Patrick O'Donovan > 3. < you smell sherry, sir — W.M.Thackeray > intransitive verb 1. a. < the dogs ran smelling through the fields > b. < smell at her salts > 2. a. (1) < the air smells of the sea — Gladys Taber > < lorries rolled by smelling of rubber and oil — Paul Roche > < it smells like violets > (2) < the accounts … seemed to me to smell of truth — R.S.Bourne > < elimination of anything smelling of policy was necessary in order to secure unanimous agreement — R.C.Tolman > b. (1) < the canals are sewers and, in tactless truth, they smell — Claudia Cassidy > (2) < all this from the moral point of view smells — A.F.Wills > • - smell a rat - smell of the lamp - smell one's oats - smell the bottom II. 1. a. < canine behavior is largely oriented in terms of smell > b. 2. < the smell of fat meat cooking in beans — Jean Stafford > < the sweet, intense smell of overripe fruit — William Beebe > 3. a. < add only a smell of garlic or the dish will offend most palates > < taking care to avoid any smell of impropriety in the proceedings > b. < quite soon danger loses the smell it had for you — you know it's there, but only because you know it must be there — Elizabeth Bowen > c. < the smell of mortality that exudes from the old records — V.L.Parrington > 4. Synonyms: < the smell of oranges and wooden boxes — Kay Fuller > < the spicy smell of tobacco — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < like all houses … had its peculiar smell — Samuel Butler †1902 > < about the town's political activity there was a smell to high heaven > scent is associated, in one direction, with the natural odor of living things, especially animals, and so carries rather vivid connotations; in being associated with the trail an animal leaves, it suggests a finer perception than smell; in being the word in Britain equivalent to the American perfume, it frequently suggests something pleasant < the scent of rabbits roused the dog to alertness > < the scents of the countryside — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < the rich, vital scents of the ploughed ground — Ellen Glasgow > < vibrating among the pale petals of the lilies and setting free their scent in short waves of perfume — John Galsworthy > odor is sometimes interchangeable with smell, often implying unpleasantness < innumerable articles of manufacture carry with them characteristic odors — A.C.Morrison > < redolent with the odor of West Indian molasses, rum, spices, and China tea — American Guide Series: Maine > < the fetid odor of a bog, the stench of a carcass in the woods, the delectable reek of ferment in the hay-crammed barn — D.C.Peattie > aroma suggests an odor that is penetrating or pungent and usually pleasant as from something savory < the aroma of cooking coffee > < African ginger lacks the fine aroma of Jamaica ginger but it has an intensely pungent odor — J.W.Parry > < the sweet, burned aroma of roasted meat and the penetrating, acid odor of hardwood smoke — Rufus Jarman > < the pervading aroma of decay and hopelessness — Harrison Smith > • - smell of the lamp |
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