reek

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n. 烟, 水蒸气, 臭气散发 vi. 冒烟, 发臭气, 散发 vt. 用烟熏, 散发

发音

UK /riːk/

词形变化

reeks 复数 reeked reeketh reekin reeking reeks 三单 reeks reeking 现在分词 reeked 过去式 reeked 过去分词

别名

reech wreak

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A strong unpleasant smell.

    腐臭

    恶臭

    臭气

    臭

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Vapour; steam; smoke; fume.

    苏格兰 可数 不可数

    1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam, And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam; And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer, And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.

  3. 1.

    A pile, a heap (as of snow, hay, etc).

  4. 1.

    A hill; a mountain.

    爱尔兰
v.
  1. 1.

    To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell.

    不及物

    You reek of perfume.

    Your fridge reeks of egg.

  2. 2.

    To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.

    比喻 不及物

    The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.

  3. 3.

    To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume.

    古体 不及物
  4. 4.

    To emit smoke or vapour; to steam.

    古体 不及物
  5. 5.

    To cause (something) to smell.

    罕用 及物
  6. 6.

    To fall in such a way (e.g. particularly finely or heavily) as to resemble smoke.

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

stink stench fetor foetor malodor malodour mephitis

上位词 3

smell odor odour

下位词 2

pong niff
动词

同义词 4

smell stink smack fume

上位词 10

show smell express emit ooze exude give off give out evince exudate

相关短语

lang may yer lum reek lang may your lum reek

词源

From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-. See also West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook, Low German Röök, German Rauch, Danish røg, Norwegian Bokmål røyk; also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”).

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