| 词组 | smell |
| 释义 | smell 1. Longman 1988 notes, and our evidence confirms, that in British English either smelt or smelled may be used as the past tense of this verb, while smelled is usual in the U.S.: • I smelt the sooty reek of the oil flames —Benedict Allen, Who Goes Out in the Midday Sun?, 1986 • "... I smelt beer on the breath of a young lad "—Frank Palmer, Daily Mirror (London), 21 Nov. 1974 • ... even the noblest in the land must have smelled a long way off —Hunter Davies, Sunday Times Mag. (London), 14 Apr. 1974 • I turned toward her and smelled that she'd brushed her teeth —John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire, 1981 • As a boxing contest and as vaudeville, it smelled — Red Smith, N.Y. Times, 4 Oct. 1976 2. The question of whether the intransitive smell must be followed by an adjective or whether it may be followed by an adverb is discussed by a few commentators. Smell is one of those verbs, linking verbs often, that are used with both adjectives and adverbs. When a writer is describing the quality of a smell, an adjective is usual: • What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet—Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1595 • ... the soil of America smelled so good to them — Russell Lord, Behold Our Land, 1938 • On this score, Dante and Milton... don't smell neutral to us —Peter Viereck, New Republic, 7 June 1954 • ... the smaller places usually smelt so awful that you wouldn't have noticed the preparation of a complete Tandoori meal —Barry Took, Punch, 13 Jan. 1976 But smell can also be used with an adverb of manner. Longman 1988 points out that adverbs are more likely to be used when smell means "stink": • Abdullah wrinkled the edge of his flat nose and shook his head. They really smelled abominably — Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa, 1935 • ... with the coming of hot weather the jars had begun to smell noticeably —John Barth, The Floating Opera, 1956 Smell is also frequently followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by of. In this construction, an adverb of manner is quite common: • ... the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere is which it was composed —Time, 22 Sept. 1974 • ... smelt very powerfully of the fish they spent most of their lives catching —John Davies, Annabel, July 1974 • ... who smelled quite as richly of class privilege as their British counterparts —John Le Carré, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 14 Oct. 1979 |
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