stink

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n. 臭味, 臭气 vi. 发臭味, 名声臭 vt. 用臭味赶

发音

US /stɪŋk/

词形变化

stinks 复数 stinks stank stinked stinkest stinketh stinking stinks 三单 stinkt stunk stinking 现在分词 stank 过去式 stunk 过去式 stunk 过去分词 more stink 比较级 most stink 最高级

别名

stimk

教材释义与例句

名词

臭味;讨厌的人

动词

使发出臭气;用臭味驱赶

动词

发出臭味;招人讨厌

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A strong bad smell.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A complaint or objection.

    可数 非正式 不可数

    If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.

    She's made a big stink about me calling her "Miss", not "Ms".

v. B2
  1. 1.

    To have a strong bad smell.

    发臭

    发臭味

    发恶臭

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

    非正式 不及物

    That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.

  3. 3.

    To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.

    不及物

    Something stinks about the politician's excuses.

  4. 4.

    To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.

    及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Bad; inferior; worthless.

    新西兰 俚语

    The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.

  2. 2.

    Bad-smelling, stinky.

    2013, Stabroek News, 19 February 2013, cited by Deborah Jan Osman Backer in a speech delivered in the National Assembly during the Budget Debate, 2013, Everyone is up in arms but it smells stink because it smells of racism…

    2016, Kei Miller, Augustown, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 1, p. 5, […] what Ma Taffy smells on this early afternoon makes her sit up straight. She smells it high and ripe and stink on the air, like a bright green jackfruit in season being pulled to the rocky ground below.

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词源

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).

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