The toilets stank to high heaven (=stank very much).
那些厕所臭气熏天。
2spoken used to say that something is bad, unfair, dishonest etc 让人感觉糟糕,令人厌恶
Don’t eat there – the food stinks!
别在那里吃,菜糟透了!
The whole justice system stinks.
整个司法系统都腐败透了。
3stink something ↔ outBritish EnglishBrE, stink something ↔ up American Englishphrasal verbphr vSMELLto fill a place with a very unpleasantsmell 使…充满难闻的味道
2cause/kick up/make etc a stinkCOMPLAINto complain very strongly 强烈抱怨;大吵大闹
Activists have raised a stink about the shipments of nuclear waste.
积极分子就运送的几批核废物大做文章。
Examples from the Corpus
cause/kick up/make etc a stink• It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.• It's financialclout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.• It will still containplenty of business and mortgageborrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
3work/run/go like stinkBritish EnglishBrE old-fashionedFAST/QUICK to work etc as fast and as well as you can 卖力地工作/奔跑/行走
2 (informal) very strong complaint about sth強烈不滿ADJECTIVE | VERB + STINKADJECTIVE➤big, tremendous大量的/沸沸揚揚的怨言VERB + STINK➤cause, kick up, make, raise引起不滿;大發怨言;招來怨言◇Residents are kicking up a stink about the amount of litter in the town.居民們對城裏這麼多胡亂丟棄的垃圾怨聲載道。