stink

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※ 提供单词"stink"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

stink 发出恶臭，臭味，难闻

来自 stench 动词形式。拼写比较 bank,bench.

stink: stink: [OE] Stink comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *stingkwan, which also produced German and Dutch stinken. Another form of the base, *stengkw-, gave English stench [OE]. Its ancestral meaning is probably simply ‘smell’, but it early on became specialized to ‘smell bad’.
=> stench
stink (v.): Old English stincan "emit a smell of any kind; exhale; rise (of dust, vapor, etc.)" (class III strong verb; past tense stanc, past participle stuncen), common West Germanic (cognates: Old Saxon stincan, West Frisian stjonke, Old High German stinkan, Dutch stinken), from the root of stench. Old English had swote stincan "to smell sweet," but offensive sense also was in Old English and predominated by mid-13c.; smell now tends the same way. Figurative meaning "be offensive" is from early 13c.; meaning "be inept" is recorded from 1924. To stink to high heaven first recorded 1963.
stink (n.): mid-13c., "strong offensive odor," from stink (v.). Sense of "extensive fuss" first recorded 1812.

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1. He was aware of the stink of stale beer on his breath.: 他知道自己嘴里有股变味啤酒的馊味。

2. The tabloid press kicked up a stink about his seven-day visit.: 小报的报道引起民众对他为期7天的访问的强烈不满。