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Odourless means having no smell. A liquid, a gas, a cream, or a room can be odourless: your nose gets nothing. British English it this way; American English odorless. Same adjective, different letters. In shops it can be a promise — an odourless cream will not leave a smell on your skin. In science it can be a warning. A gas that is colourless and odourless gives you no sight and no smell to go on, so you may not know it is there. Daily English sometimes just says “it has no smell.” Odourless is the tidier, slightly school-and-label word for that fact. It is about the nose, not about taste, even when a Chinese label nearby says 無味.
無臭的、沒有氣味的(英式拼法)。「無味」常被拿來當對譯,但那也常指沒有味道。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
odourlessadj/ˈəʊdələs/
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Having no odour.
- They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odourless gas.
- Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。