smelling

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT The smell of something is a quality it has which you become aware of when you breathe in through your nose. 氣味
...the smell of freshly baked bread. …新烤麪包的氣味。
...horrible smells. …令人惡心的氣味。
2. N-UNCOUNT Your sense of smell is the ability that your nose has to detect things. 嗅覺
...people who lose their sense of smell. …失去嗅覺的人們。
3. V-LINK If something smells a particular way, it has a quality which you become aware of through your nose. 有…的氣味; 聞起來
The room smelled of lemons. 房間有股檸檬的氣味。
It smells delicious. 它聞起來真香。
4. V-I If you say that something smells, you mean that it smells unpleasant. 有臭味
Ma threw that out. She said it smelled. 媽把那個扔出去了。她說它已經有臭味了。
5. V-T If you smell something, you become aware of it when you breathe in through your nose. 聞到
As soon as we opened the front door we could smell the gas. 我們一打開前門就能聞到那煤氣味。
6. V-T If you smell something, you put your nose near it and breathe in, so that you can discover its smell. (鼻子湊近) 嗅
I took a fresh rose out of the vase on our table, and smelled it. 我從我們桌上的花瓶裡取出一支新鮮的玫瑰，聞了聞。
7. to smell a rat→see rat