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Smellies is a cheerful, informal British word for nice-smelling things you put on your body or in your bath — perfume, bath oil, soap, body , shower gel. It is the kind of word used when talking about presents: 'I got Mum some smellies for her birthday.' Notice what it does: it gathers a whole set of gift-shop things under one easy name, so you do not have to list them. It is always plural — you cannot buy 'a ' — and it takes a plural verb: the smellies are on the shelf. The tone is light and a little , mostly women's talk and family talk, and it belongs to Britain rather than America. It is friendly, never rude, but too casual for writing at work. What is quietly funny about it is that it is built on , which on its own means bad-smelling — here the family has turned the word around to mean the opposite.
(英式口語)香香的沐浴保養小物(香水、沐浴乳、香皂、乳液這類禮物)
原始詞典資料4 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。
smelliesnoun
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informalPleasant-smelling toiletries.
- I bought my mother some smellies for her birthday.
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informalCinema enhanced with odours.
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。