smell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /smɛl/    美 /smɛl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. countable,uncountable
    — I love the smell of fresh bread.
  2. The sense that detects odours. countable,uncountable
  3. A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. countable,uncountable
    — I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.
动词 v.
  1. To sense a smell or smells. transitive
    — I can smell fresh bread.
  2. To sense a smell or smells.; To detect or perceive; often with out. broadly,transitive
    — I smell a device.
  3. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. copulative,intransitive
    — The roses smell lovely.
  4. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.; To smell of; to have a smell of broadly,copulative,intransitive
    — I do smell all horse-piss
  5. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.; To smell bad; to stink. copulative,intransitive
    — Ew, this restroom smells (loathsomely).
  6. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.; To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour. copulative,figuratively,intransitive
    — A report smells of calumny.
  7. To give heed to. obsolete
    — So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.

词形变化

smells plural smells present,singular,third-person smelling participle,present smelled participle,past smelled past smelt participle,past smelt past

词汇关系

近义词
fragrance odor odour scent pong reek stench stink flair smell
上位词
sensation emanation exhalation
下位词
bad smell code smell good smell aroma fragrance scent stench whiff
衍生词
code smell money does not smell money has no smell new-car smell sense of smell smaste smell-alike smell blindness smell-brain smell-feast smell fox smellful smell-o-meter smell-o-rama smell-o-vision smellproof smellscape smell-smock smellsome smell trap sweet smell of success foresmell besmell come out smelling like a rose come out smelling of roses come up smelling like a rose come up smelling of roses foul-smelling outsmell resmell smellable smell a fox smell a rat smell blood smell blood in the water smellevision smell fishy smellfungus smellie smelling bottle smelling salt smell like a rose smell like a tart's bedroom smell like a tart's boudoir smell like a tart's handbag smell like a tart's handkerchief smell of an oily rag smell of the lamp smell of the shop smell one's own farts smell out smell test smell the barn smell the coffee smell the roses smell up smell what someone is stepping in smelly smell ya later smell you later smock-smelling stop and smell the flowers stop and smell the roses stop to smell the roses sweet-smelling unsmell unsmelled wake up and smell the ashes wake up and smell the coffee wake up and smell the roses
相关词
nose anosmia sense

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *smel-der.
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *smel-der.
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother.
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