olfaction 英 [ɒl'fækʃn]   美 [ɑlˈfækʃən, ol-]

olfaction

olfaction  英 [ɒl'fækʃn] 美 [ɑlˈfækʃən, ol-]

n. 嗅觉 

名词复数:olfactions 

The team happened upon the link between sex and olfaction while investigating the sense of smell in fruit flies. 研究组的方向在于性和嗅觉的联系上,他们发现了水果气味在其中起到的作用。
"Finding olfactory ways of communication between human newborns and mothers would be a strong demonstration that olfaction is still functional in the human social context, " he adds. 他补充说道:“发现人类新生婴儿与母亲之间的嗅觉交流方式,将会是嗅觉仍在人类社会环境中发挥作用的有力证明。”

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  • n. 嗅觉
  • 1. The team happened upon the link between sex and olfaction while investigating the sense of smell in fruit flies.

    研究组的方向在于性和嗅觉的联系上,他们发现了水果气味在其中起到的作用。

  • 2. "Finding olfactory ways of communication between human newborns and mothers would be a strong demonstration that olfaction is still functional in the human social context, " he adds.

    他补充说道:“发现人类新生婴儿与母亲之间的嗅觉交流方式,将会是嗅觉仍在人类社会环境中发挥作用的有力证明。”

  • 3. But his theory claims to offer one explanation for a whole range of enigmatic human features: bipedality, hairlesslessness, fat layer, descended larynx, loss of olfaction, and so on.

    而且他的理论还声称为人类所有的神秘特征提供了一种解释:两足动物,无毛发,脂肪层,喉结遗传,嗅觉丧失等等。

  • olfaction (n.) noun of action from Latin olfactus, past participle of olfacere "to smell, get the smell of" (transitive), from olere "to emit a smell" (see odor) + facere "to make" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put").
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