真的在腐爛
這一支就是核心畫面本身，沒有轉彎：東西在分解，味道跑出來。
adjective · C1
Rotting, and giving off a very bad smell. It is used about dead animals, plants, or food that has gone bad, and it can also be put straight onto the smell itself.
腐爛惡臭的
核心畫面
Think of standing a few steps away from something that has been rotting for days. You do not need to touch it or look closely — the smell has already reached you, and you want to move back. That smell is what this word carries everywhere it goes. Pointed at meat or pond water, it is literal. Pointed at a colour, a performance or a corrupt company, the speaker is saying that thing affects them the same way.
可以想成一個畫面：有東西已經爛了好幾天，你站在幾步外，還沒看清楚，味道就先到了，而你只想退開。putrid 走到哪裡…更多收起
可以想成一個畫面：有東西已經爛了好幾天，你站在幾步外，還沒看清楚，味道就先到了，而你只想退開。putrid 走到哪裡都帶著這股味道。用在肉、死水、爛葉子上時，是真的在講腐爛。用在顏色、表演、制度上時，說話的人是在說：這東西讓我的感覺，就像那股味道。From the word’s history
The supplied Wiktionary entry traces putrid to Latin putridus (rotten, decayed), from putreō (to be rotten), from puter. English took it through Old French putride and Middle English. The root has meant rotting from the start, which is why the smell sits so firmly inside the modern word.
packet 裡的 Wiktionary 資料把 putrid 追到拉丁文 putridus（腐爛的），再往上是 putreō（腐爛）和 puter，經古法文 putride 和中古英文進入英文。這個字根從一開始就在講腐爛，所以現在的 putrid 才會把「爛掉」和「聞得到」綁得這麼緊。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this batch's evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:677299375)
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把那股味道借去講別的東西
這一支沒有任何東西真的在爛。說話的人是把核心畫面當成一個比喻，用來表示「這讓我反感的程度，跟聞到那股味道一樣」。所以語氣一定很重，也很主觀。
adjective · C1
Very unpleasant, in a way that makes you feel disgust. It is used about anything you strongly dislike — a colour, a taste, a film, a performance — and nothing is actually rotting.
糟透的