nose
n. 鼻子, 突出部分, 嗅觉 vt. 嗅到, 探出, 用鼻子触 vi. 闻, 嗅, 探听, 告密
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教材释义与例句
鼻子；嗅觉；突出的部分；探问
the part of a person's or animal's face used for smelling or breathing
嗅；用鼻子触
释义与例句
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A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
鼻
鼻子
鼻哥
鼻公
鼻仔
鼻头
She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
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A snout, the nose of an animal.
鼻子
鼻
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The tip of an object.
the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
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The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
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The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
马鼻
体育 动物学Red Rum only won by a nose.
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A perfumer.
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The sense of smell.
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Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
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The skill in recognising bouquet.
It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
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Skill at finding information.
引申义A successful tabloid reporter has a nose for gossip.
1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries I got to know one or two other girls who wrote, and they told me that my sort of stuff would be all right when I got into the peerage or became a leading lady, but if I wanted to live meanwhile it was absolutely necessary to cultivate a "news-nose".
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The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop
习语They had a nose around the abandoned property.
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A downward projection from a cornice.
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An informer.
俚语
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To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
不及物The ship nosed through the minefield.
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To snoop.
及物/不及物 习语 不及物She was nosing around other people’s business.
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To detect by smell or as if by smell.
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To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
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To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
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To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
及物to nose a prayer
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To furnish with a nose.
及物to nose a stair tread
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To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
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To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
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To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
不及物 航空 商务 工程 航海 交通The plane is nosing up!
We have to get it nosing down.
词汇关系
同义词 2
上位词 8
下位词 10
部分词 6
整体词 8
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词源
From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”). See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
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