- 1發臭、臭氣沖天。比喻：充滿（不好的味道或感覺）
If a person, a place, or a thing reeks, it has a strong bad smell. This is not a soft word for “smell”. You say it when the smell hits you and you do not like it — old fish, cigarette smoke in a closed room, a fridge that has gone wrong. Nobody uses reek for bread from the oven or for flowers. People also stretch it: they say a plan reeks of a trick, or a speech reeks of fear, meaning it strongly gives that feeling even though nothing actually smells. There is a noun too: a reek is that strong ugly smell. Though actually, the old meaning was smoke, and in some older or Scottish talk it can still mean smoke. In the English most students meet now, reek is almost always the bad smell, not smoke and not a nice smell.
組成Noun from Middle English rek/reke “smoke”, from Old English rēc, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (smoke). Verb from Middle English reken “to smoke”, from Old English rēocan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną. Sister smoke-words still live in Dutch rook, German Rauch, Swedish rök; the English meaning has mainly shifted to a strong bad smell.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
reeknoun詞源 1/riːk/
- 1
A strong unpleasant smell.
- 2
Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.
- Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of a Lime-kill.
- 1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam, And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam; And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer, And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.
reekverb詞源 2/riːk/
- 1
To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
- You reek of perfume.
- Your fridge reeks of egg.
- 2
To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
- The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.
- 3
archaicTo be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
- 4
archaicTo emit smoke or vapour; to steam.
- […] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.
- 5
rareTo cause (something) to smell.
- The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.
- [I]f we get caught we're for the gibbet and the chains. Our flesh will reek the wind.
- 6
archaicTo fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.
- ... the snow still darkens the air, and reeks along the curling wreaths, as if each were a furnace.
- the sun, which had been occasionally peeping from amidst the windy, rain-reeking clouds, was getting ominously low. One part, however, of the man's prophecy was not borne out - the weather steadily improved and the wind dropped.
reeknoun詞源 3/riːk/
- 1
A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).
- The fen "dikes" have been filled-in in some districts; and the black reeks remind one of snow-reeks, except for their blackness.
- "There'll be snow-reeks as high as houses if I wait half-an-hour longer." "There'll be no occasion for ye to wade thruff snaw-reeks at all, if ye'll go wi' me. I'll tak ye across th' warpin' till ye get to the sand-lane end, […]
reeknoun詞源 4/riːk/
- 1
A hill; a mountain.
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