stink

Word family

stink1 /stɪŋk/ verb (past tensepst stank /stæŋk/, past participlepp stunk /stʌŋk/) [intransitiveI]

1 SMELLto have a strong and very unpleasant smell 散发恶臭，发臭味

It stinks in here!

这里很臭！

stink of

His breath stank of alcohol.

他嘴里一股酒气。

The toilets stank to high heaven (=stank very much).

那些厕所臭气熏天。

2 spoken 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。

3 stink something ↔ out British EnglishBrE, stink something ↔ up American English phrasal verbphr v SMELLto fill a place with a very unpleasant smell 使…充满难闻的味道

Those onions are stinking the whole house out.

那些洋葱弄得满屋子臭味。

Examples from the Corpus

stink• Her room is filthy, and it stinks.• The fish Cassius returned home with lay in a plastic basin in the kitchen, spoiled and stinking.• How can you eat that cheese? It stinks.• Your shoes stink.• But area teenagers said Wednesday that the provisions stink.• Conveyancing is a reactionary adversarial system-and in the main it stinks.• Boys with wicker baskets full of bricks and masonry hurry past; the streets stink and run with mud and excrement.• His clothes stank of cigarette smoke.• The woman stank of neglect, her clothes were torn and filthy, and tears had made twin furrows down her face.• You boys stink to high heaven - go inside and take a shower.• But the move, though it stinks, was legal.

stink of• the stink of burning rubber• It stinks of smoke in here.• His apartment stank of stale beer.

stink2 noun [countableC usually singular]

1 SMELLa very bad smell 恶臭，难闻的气味 SYN stench

stink of

the stink of burning rubber

橡胶燃烧发出的恶臭

► see thesaurus at smell

2 cause/kick up/make etc a stink COMPLAINto 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 financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.• It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.

3 work/run/go like stink British EnglishBrE old-fashionedFAST/QUICK to work etc as fast and as well as you can 卖力地工作/奔跑/行走

We had to work like stink to meet the deadline.

我们不得不拼命地赶工期。

Examples from the Corpus

stink• Emitting a stink that would have made a Tyryttiaki swamp mist seem fragrant.• You really do have to make a stink.• I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory.• She crept down toward the stink of blood.• It was the stink of suffering.• The stink from the drains is almost unbearable in summer.• The stink of burning rubber permeated the hot summer air.• The stink of gasoline filled the air and the Prophet's eyes widened in shocked disbelief.

Origin stink1

Old English stincan

stink1 verbstink2 noun

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