Old English stenc "a smell, odor, scent, fragrance" (either pleasant or unpleasant), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (cognates: Old Saxon stanc, Old High German stanch, German stank). Related to stincan "emit a smell" (see stink (v.)) as drench is to drink. It tended toward "bad smell" in Old English (as a verb, only with this sense), and the notion of "evil smell" has predominated since c. 1200.
雙語例句
1. The stench from the sewer is indescribable.
下水道發出一股說不出的惡臭。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The stench from rotting food is stomach-churning.
腐爛食物散發的臭味讓人反胃。
來自柯林斯例句
3. the sickening stench of burnt flesh
肉體燃燒所發出的令人作嘔的惡臭
來自《權威詞典》
4. an overpowering stench of rotting fish
腐爛的魚臭氣熏天
來自《權威詞典》
5. The air was filled with the overpowering stench of decomposing vegetation.