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sniff [snif]

n. 以鼻吸气, 嗅, 气息

vi. 嗅, 蔑视, 嗤之以鼻

vt. 闻, 用力吸, 发觉

sniff

[ noun ]

sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

perceive by inhaling through the nose

<verb.perception>

whiff

sniff the perfume

inhale audibly through the nose

<verb.body>

sniffle

the sick student was sniffling in the back row

Sniff \Sniff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sniffed}or {Snift}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Sniffing}.] [OE. sneven; akin to snivel, snuff; cf.
Dan. snive to sniff. See {Snuff}, v. t.]
To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done
as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.

So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. --M.
Arnold.

Sniff \Sniff\, v. t.
1. To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff
the air of the country.

2. To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell;
as, to sniff danger.

Sniff \Sniff\, n.
The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is
taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.

Summer is also the time to sniff the lemon-ice scent of the grandifloras and to look at some surprising newcomers, Brooklynensis Grex.
Drugs like cocaine and crack are not prevalent here, but Russian women often abuse tranquilizers and teen-agers sniff Benzene, he said.
"The dog found a quarter-ounce of coke in gram bags in a slit under his rug," said Gene Panella, who trained 2-year-old Corky to locate even minute amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin at $250 a sniff.
Caola was a desirable property for the western multinationals which began to sniff around in 1990.
"People are obviously trying to sniff to see a bottom for the dollar, but an awful lot of Japanese investors got burned very badly," says Nicholas P. Sargen, a vice president at Salomon Brothers Inc. in New York.
The coughing is most prevalent during the current cold and flu season, Hanson said, but conductors also sniff over audience noises.
"People are starting to sniff that recovery is in the air."
Twenty-six American disaster relief specialists arrived Saturday in devastated Soviet Armenia with eight dogs trained to sniff out survivors buried in the rubble of an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.
Then, in the late '60s, we were testing a beverage, and it was the first thing that came into my mind." Another time, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital called him in to sniff a comatose child with a strange odor.
To succor the wretched of Armenia's earthquake, each did what he could Monday: Alaska sent dogs to sniff out the trapped, Kenya sent tea to warm the chilled, and a U.S. millionaire personally delivered a $1 million check.
Another problem is that dogs used by U.S. Customs agents to sniff out concealed heroin and cocaine so far haven't been able to detect steroids.
The herds sniff the air, twitch their ears, stamp the ground nervously, and then begin to run. By sunset I felt I had all of Africa to myself.
But the latest edition also includes new items intended to sniff out such aberrant behavior as drug abuse, eating disorders and Type A personality, which weren't in vogue when the test was first published in 1942.
Other reporters grumble about the police dogs that are being used to sniff their hand luggage before boarding the chartered Air Canada jet that the prime minister uses.
He said three teams of dogs brought in to sniff through the rubble all pinpointed the same area where the victims may be trapped but that concrete slabs prevented rescue workers from searching there.
The test employs dog kidney cells to "sniff" out the compounds.
It is not easy to see that trend quickly reversing itself as political uncertainties mount ahead of next May's presidential elections. Nevertheless, investors with steely nerves and long time horizons may sniff a chance to buy shares on the cheap.
They can be found by a person using a stick, but more commonly pigs or trained hounds are used to sniff them out.

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