喜樂美語

核心畫面

Something in the air that your nose picks up — a flower, bread baking, smoke. The whole word, both the noun (the thing your nose notices) and the verb (the noticing itself), turns around this one moment of the nose catching something carried on the air.

可以想成：空氣裡飄著某種東西，你的鼻子一下子接收到了——花香、剛烤好的麵包、燒焦的煙。整個字不管當名詞（鼻子接收到的…更多收起可以想成：空氣裡飄著某種東西，你的鼻子一下子接收到了——花香、剛烤好的麵包、燒焦的煙。整個字不管當名詞（鼻子接收到的那個東西）還是當動詞（鼻子去接收的動作），都圍著「鼻子捕捉到空氣中某樣東西」這一個瞬間打轉。

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。

smellnoun/smɛl/

  • 1

    A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

    • I love the smell of fresh bread.
    • The penetrating smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry[…]
  • 2

    medicinephysiologysciencesThe sense that detects odours.

    • In this interest we used the survey to obtain unique data about the memory-evoking power of smell. We found that the stronger the odor, the more likely it was to bring to mind a vivid memory.
  • 3

    A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.

    • I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.

smellverb/smɛl/

  • 1

    To sense a smell or smells.

    • I can smell fresh bread.
    • Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
  • 2

    To sense a smell or smells.

    • I smell a device.
  • 3

    Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

    • The roses smell lovely.
    • Her feet smell of cheese.
  • 4

    Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

    • I do smell all horse-piss
  • 5

    Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

    • Ew, this restroom smells (loathsomely).
  • 6

    Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

    • A report smells of calumny.
    • Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.
  • 7

    obsoleteTo give heed to.

    • So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.

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。