Post by FrancescoPost by SantinoMmmh! If anybody can smell it after a 6000 kilometers trip, it can't be
good! BO is not something you usually talk about or send by letter. Your
obstinate fixation makes me seriously think that you are creepy, as
someone already suggested.
I am not sure what you are after (and don't really care) but I doubt that
Casanova himself would bring up that topic to lure one of his preys.
Poi fa' un po' come ti pare...
E se avessi scritto tale frase in modo figurato oppure se avessi spruzzato
del mio profumo all'interno della lettera!!
Whatever...
Post by FrancescoPoi, ripeto, la frase era solo un esempio in quanto mi interessava capire
come si dice "sentire l'odore di qualcosa/qualcuno"
Really? Why didn't you say so in the first place? Any two-bit dictionary
can explain that.
Ecco uno stralcio, nasa pure.
--- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English --->
smell
W3S2 n
1 [C] the quality that people and animals recognize by using their
nose: smell of// --The air was filled with the smell of flowers.//
sweet/delicious smell // --There's a delicious smell coming from the
kitchen.// unpleasant/bad/acrid smell // --the acrid smell of smoke//
strong/pungent smell // --a pungent smell of garlic//
2 [C] an unpleasant smell: --I think the smell's getting worse.//
3 [U] the ability to notice or recognize smells: --loss of taste and
smell// --Dogs have a very good sense of smell .//
4 [C usually singular] an act of smelling something: -- Have a smell
of this cheese; does it seem all right?// ----------// WORD FOCUS:
smell // good smell: aroma, perfume, fragrance, scent // bad smell:
stink, stench, odour (BrE) odor (AmE), whiff, pong (BrE) //
----------//
smell 2 W3S2 v past tense and past participle smelled especially AmE
or smelt /smelt/ BrE // ----------//
1 notice a smell:
2 have a smell:
3 have a bad smell:
4 put your nose near something:
5 have ability:
6 smell trouble/danger etc:
7 smell a rat:
8 smell wrong/fishy/odd etc: Phrasal verbs// smell
somebody/something → out// ----------//
1 NOTICE A SMELL: [T not in progressive] to notice or recognize a
particular smell// --I can smell burning.// --Can you smell something?//
2 HAVE A SMELL: [linking verb] to have a particular smell// smell
adj// --The stew smelled delicious .// --Mm! Something smells good
!// smell like// --It smells like rotten eggs.// smell of// BrE //
--My clothes smelt of smoke.// sweet-smelling/foul-smelling etc //
--sweet-smelling flowers//
3 HAVE A BAD SMELL: [I not in progressive] to have an unpleasant
smell// --Your feet smell!// --The room smelled to high heaven (=had
a very bad smell) .//
4 PUT YOUR NOSE NEAR SOMETHING: [T] to put your nose near something
in order to discover what kind of smell it has// sniff// --She bent
down and smelt the flowers.//
5 HAVE ABILITY: [I] to have the ability to notice and recognize
smells// --I've got a cold and I can't smell.//
6 smell trouble/danger etc: to feel that something is going to
happen, especially something bad// --Miller had smelled trouble the
moment she said who she was.//
7 smell a rat: informal to guess that something wrong or dishonest
is happening//
8 smell wrong/fishy/odd etc: informal to seem dishonest or
untrue// --The whole thing is beginning to smell fishy to me.// come
up/out smelling of roses at rose1 (6)// smell out [smell sb/sth → out]
phr v//
1 to find something by smelling: sniff out// --They use dogs
trained to smell out explosives.//
2 informal to find or recognize something because you have a natural
ability to do this: sniff out// --They'll be able to smell out any
corruption.// ----------// GRAMMAR // You can say that something
smells good, bad, strange etc. // !! Use an adjective, never an
adverb : You smell wonderful (NOT wonderfully) - what perfume is that?
// In British English, you can use smell with of to say what
something smells like : Her jacket smelled of smoke (NOT smelled smoke).
// If you say that something or someone smells , you mean they have a
bad smell : Your socks smell. // If you can smell something or you
smell something, you notice its smell : I can smell coffee. | We
smelled smoke. // !! You do not say 'feel a smell'. // ----------//
<--- English Thesaurus --->
smell
[N] (Odor): odor, smell, scent, aroma, effluvium, emanation,
exhalation, fume, essence, redolence, fragrance.
[V] (Odor): have an odor, smell, smell of, exhale, reek, scent, smell,
scent
[N] (Odor): odor, smell, scent, aroma, effluvium, emanation,
exhalation, fume, essence, redolence, fragrance.
[V] (Odor): have an odor, smell, smell of, exhale, reek, scent, smell,
scent.
[ADJ] (Odor): odorous, aromatic, fragrant, smelling, reeking,
foul-smelling, strong-scented, redolent, pungent, putrid, foul.
[N] (Odor): odor, smell, scent, aroma, effluvium, emanation,
exhalation, fume, essence, redolence, fragrance.
[V] (Odor): have an odor, smell, smell of, exhale, reek, scent, smell,
scent.
[ADJ] (Odor): odorous, aromatic, fragrant, smelling, reeking,
foul-smelling, strong-scented, redolent, pungent, putrid, foul.
[N] (Stench): , bad smell, odor, stench, stink, foul odor
[V] (Stench): smell, stink, reek.
[ADJ] (Stench): fetid, malodorous, offensive, rank, smelling, stinking,
putrid, suffocating, mephitic.
<--- WordNet --->
smell
smell
n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the
nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous
form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: {odor}, {odour},
{olfactory sensation}, {olfactory perception}]
2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: {olfactory
property}, {aroma}, {odor}, {odour}, {scent}]
3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the
effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city
excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the
meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: {spirit}, {tone},
{feel}, {feeling}, {flavor}, {flavour}, {look}]
4: the faculty of smell [syn: {sense of smell}, {olfaction},
{olfactory
modality}]
5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: {smelling}]
[also: {smelt}]
smell
v 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
[also: {smelt}]