| 词汇 | sniff |
| 释义 | sniff verb uk /snɪf/ us /snɪf/ C2[ I or T ] to smell something by taking air in through your nose: 嗅，闻 He sniffed his socks to see if they needed washing.他嗅了嗅自己的袜子，看是否需要洗了。 Dogs love sniffing each other.狗喜欢相互嗅闻。 She sniffed at her glass of wine before tasting it.品尝那杯酒之前，她先闻了闻。 Dogs are sometimes used at airports to sniff out(= find by smelling) drugs in people's luggage.有时候，狗被用来在机场嗅查人们的行李中是否有毒品。 He was expelled from school for sniffing glue(= taking in the gas from glue because of the feelings of pleasure that this gives).他因吸食胶毒而被学校开除。 C2[ I ] to take air in quickly through your nose, usually to stop the liquid inside the nose from flowing out: 抽鼻子 You're sniffing a lot - do you have a cold?你不停地抽鼻子——你感冒了吗？ [ T ] to speak in an unpleasant way, showing that you have a low opinion of something: 嗤之以鼻地说，轻蔑地说 [ + speech ]"They didn't even serve wine at dinner!" she sniffed.“他们在正餐时间竟然没有供应酒水！”她轻蔑地说。 He sniffed the flowers. The dog sniffed around his feet. She sniffed the forkful and put it back on her plate. As she turned away I saw him sniff furtively under his arm.当她转身离开时，我看到他偷偷地在腋下嗅了嗅。 Could you blow your nose instead of sniffing? Smells & smelling acridly anosmic bergamot deodorize deodorizing fragrant fullness fusty malodorous minging niff olfactory nerve orangey petrichor piny pungency scented smelly stagnant stink You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Colds & flu Showing arrogance and conceit Phrasal verbssniff at something sniff something/someone out sniff something out sniff noun[ C ] uk /snɪf/ us /snɪf/ a quick breath in through the nose to smell something, or to stop liquid in the nose from coming out: 吸气;闻;抽鼻子 Take a sniff of this medicine - it smells horrible, doesn't it?闻闻这种药——有一股让人作呕的味儿，对吗？ "I don't think much of that idea," she said with a sniff (= an expression of a low opinion).“我觉得这主意不怎么样。”她吸了吸鼻子轻蔑地说。 Smells & smelling acridly anosmic bergamot deodorize deodorizing fragrant fullness fusty malodorous minging niff olfactory nerve orangey petrichor piny pungency scented smelly stagnant stink You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Colds & flu sniff | American Dictionarysniff verb[ I/T ] us/snɪf/ sniffverb[I/T] (SMELL)to smell something by taking in air through the nose: [ T ]Jack crushed a bit of dried grass between his fingers and sniffed its scent. To sniff is also to quickly take in a breath through the nose. sniffverb[I/T] (SHOW DISAPPROVAL)to express a bad opinion of something or someone; to show disapproval: [ I ]The museum’s front lawn does not need to be cluttered with silly pop art, sniffed a newspaper editorial. Phrasal verbsniff out something sniff noun[ C ] us/snɪf/ sniffnoun[C] (QUICK SMELL)a quick breath in through the nose to smell something: She took a sniff of the medicine. Examples of sniffsniff All plasticity, the work ends with a stage essentially emptied, but for a dog, looking like a stray, sniffing for carrion. There are many cases already of dogs sniffing out human disease that have been reported in this section. I hardly think the subject warrants that,' ' sniffed one college head. The slow background activity is phase locked with the respiratory wave and it is identified with the sniff cycle. The report suggests that for centuries doctors have been able to tell if a wound is infected simply by sniffing. The great advantage for law enforcement is that, however hard we scrub or cover ourselves in deodorant, we cannot entirely obscure our 'sniff signature'. We were shoulder to shoulder around the rectangular table, sniffing and snuffling as we wrote, and reread, and continued writing. In many challenging situations when animals are uncertain what to do, they actively seek better information, peering, listening, tasting, probing, or sniffing. Anogenital sniffing - olfactory investigation of the anogenital region of the opponent. He responds to those who dare trespass in the garden with indifferent silence or grunts, his conversations consisting of sniffs, growls, belches. Ironically, sniffing out such meanings may be considered part of the licence that perfumance grants the nosy textual detective. Individuals entered a fruit-fall area cautiously, usually by meandering around the area sniffing the litter surface. It got a little sniff of easing and the stock market took off, the bond market took off. A sniff cycle is composed of an inhalation and an exhalation, and its duration is 200-500 msec for rabbits. Why should we not profit from whatever structure we can sniff out, abstract and re-use? See all examples of sniff These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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