smelling

柯林斯詞典

smell /sm?l/ (smelling,smelled,smells)

• 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(gè)扔出去了。她說它已經(jīng)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

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