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vi. 散发；冒烟；放出臭气 n. 臭气；水蒸汽；烟 vt. 散发；用烟熏
进行时:reeking 过去式:reeked 过去分词:reeked 第三人称单数:reeks 名词复数:reeks
- It smells absolutely rotten and offensive. Birds are falling from the sky because of the fumes. You might throw up from one whiff. Whatever it is, it reeks.
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- vi. 散发；冒烟；放出臭气
- n. 臭气；水蒸汽；烟
- vt. 散发；用烟熏
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1. "Trophy desks reek of success," Dawson says.
摆着战利品的桌面在散发者成功的信息，“Dawson说。
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2. In 1873, a fog that was said to reek of coal tar filled parts of London, allegedly making the death rate rise 40%.
1873年，煤焦油散发的臭气弥漫了伦敦大部分地区，据说当时死亡率上升了40%。
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3. But a new paper suggests that bacteria do not just reek odor—they also smell it.
但是一篇新的论文表明细菌不仅仅会发出恶臭，它们同样能够闻到恶臭。
- reek (n.) Old English rec (Anglian), riec (West Saxon), "smoke from burning material," probably from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse reykr, Danish rǿg, Swedish rök "smoke, steam," from Proto-Germanic *raukiz (source also of Old Frisian rek, Middle Dutch rooc, Old High German rouh, German Rauch "smoke, steam"), from PIE *reug- "to vomit, belch;" also "smoke, cloud." Sense of "stench" is attested 1650s, via the notion of "that which rises" (compare reek (v.)).
- reek (v.) Old English recan (Anglian), reocan (West Saxon) "emit smoke," from Proto-Germanic *reukan (source also of Old Frisian reka "smoke," Middle Dutch roken, Dutch rieken "to smoke," Old High German riohhan "to smoke, steam," German rauchen "to smoke," riechen "to smell").
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