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.
实用例句
1. The stench from the sewer is indescribable.
下水道发出一股说不出的恶臭。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The stench from rotting food is stomach-churning.
腐烂食物散发的臭味让人反胃。
来自柯林斯例句
3. the sickening stench of burnt flesh
肉体燃烧所发出的令人作呕的恶臭
来自《权威词典》
4. an overpowering stench of rotting fish
腐烂的鱼臭气熏天
来自《权威词典》
5. The air was filled with the overpowering stench of decomposing vegetation.
