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If a person, a place, or a thing reeks, it has a strong bad smell. This is not a soft word for “smell”.
If a person, a place, or a thing reeks如果一個人、一個地方或一樣東西reeks it has a strong bad smell就是有一股很重的臭味。This is not a soft word for "smell"這不是「smell」那種溫和的講法。
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.
You say it when the smell hits you and you do not like it你會在味道撲面而來、而你又不喜歡時這樣說 — old fish, cigarette smoke in a closed room, a fridge that has gone wrong像是不新鮮的魚、密閉房間裡的菸味、壞掉的冰箱。Nobody uses reek for bread from the oven or for flowers沒有人會用reek來形容剛出爐的麵包或花香。
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.
People also stretch it大家也會延伸這個用法 they say a plan reeks of a trick, or a speech reeks of fear說一個計畫reeks of a trick，或一場演講reeks of fear meaning it strongly gives that feeling even though nothing actually smells意思是強烈給人那種感覺，即使根本沒有真的味道。There is a noun too也有名詞用法 a reek is that strong ugly smellreek指的就是那種強烈難聞的味道。
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.
Though actually不過其實 the old meaning was smoke這個字古時候的意思是煙 and in some older or Scottish talk it can still mean smoke在一些比較舊式或蘇格蘭的說法裡，它還是可能指煙。In the English most students meet now在大多數學生現在會接觸到的英文裡 reek is almost always the bad smell, not smoke and not a nice smellreek幾乎都是指臭味，不是煙，也不是好聞的味道。
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，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。
reeknoun詞源 1/riːk/
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A strong unpleasant smell.
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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/
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To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
- You reek of perfume.
- Your fridge reeks of egg.
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To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
- The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.
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archaicTo be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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/
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A hill; a mountain.
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。