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stink
用作不及物动词，表示散发臭味。
The garbage stinks.
垃圾发臭了。
发臭；有臭味
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发臭；有臭味
to smell very bad
The garbage stinks.
垃圾发臭了。
有强烈的臭味
To have a strong bad smell.
给人不诚实、不真实或罪恶的印象
To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
质量或表现极差
be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance
使发臭；用臭味影响
To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
stink
Base
原形
stinks
3rd person
第三人称单数
stinking
-ing
现在分词
stank
Past
过去式
stunk
Past participle
过去分词
The garbage stinks.
垃圾很臭。
The fish stank yesterday.
昨天鱼很臭。
The room is stinking because of the trash.
房间因为垃圾而变得很臭。
注意：'stink' 是不规则动词。
After three days in the sun, the trash bag really stinks.
在太阳下放了三天后，那个垃圾袋真的发臭了。
AI contextual example
The whole room stank when we opened the door after the holiday.
假期结束后我们打开门时，整个房间散发着臭味。
AI contextual example
Your shoes are stinking because you left them in the gym bag.
你的鞋子发臭了，因为你把它们留在健身包里。
AI contextual example
This term paper stinks!
这篇学期论文糟透了!
WordNet
用作不及物动词，表示散发臭味。
The garbage stinks.
垃圾发臭了。
后接名词，表示充满某物的气味。
He stank of sweat after the workout.
锻炼后他浑身汗臭味。
非正式用法，表示在某方面能力差。
She stinks at playing the piano.
她钢琴弹得很差。
及物短语动词，意为使某物充满臭味。
The skunk stank up the entire house.
臭鼬把整个房子都熏臭了。
Not this
The garbage stinked.
Use this
The garbage stank.
动词stink的过去式是不规则变化stank，不应加-ed变为stinked。
Not this
I stink something bad in the kitchen.
Use this
I smell something bad in the kitchen.
stink意为'散发臭味'，是不及物动词，不能接宾语表示'闻到'；表示'闻到'应用smell。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
散发着汗臭味
After the workout, his T-shirt stank of sweat.
锻炼之后，他的T恤散发着汗臭味。
极其糟糕；很不正当
The whole proposal stinks to high heaven.
整个提议烂透了。
数学很差劲
She stinks at math, so she asked for help.
她数学很差劲，所以向人求助。
把房间弄得臭烘烘
The burnt fish stank up the room.
烧焦的鱼把房间弄得臭烘烘的。
臭气熏天；腐败透顶
The whole deal stinks to high heaven.
这笔交易从头到尾都透着腐败。
大吵大闹；强烈抗议
She raised a stink when they changed her schedule.
他们改变她的日程时，她大吵大闹。
拼命工作
He worked like stink to get the project done on time.
他拼命工作，好按时完成项目。
钱不臭。
People often say 'Money doesn't stink' to mean it does not matter where the money came from.
人们常说“钱不臭”，意思是钱的来路并不重要。
丹麦国里有什么东西发臭了。
When a political scandal breaks, journalists may write 'Something stinks in the state of Denmark,' echoing Shakespeare's Hamlet.
当政治丑闻爆发时，记者们可能会写“丹麦国里有什么东西发臭了”，这是对莎士比亚《哈姆雷特》的呼应。
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联想：臭东西会黏（stick）在身上挥之不去，stink 比 stick 多一个 n，记住“n=难闻”。
语域：mixed 常见场景：日常对话、非正式评论、描述气味或评价质量 stink 作动词时，字面义“发出恶臭”比较常见于日常叙述和对话，语气直接；引申为“很糟糕、很差”或“显得可疑”时多用于口语和非正式场合。正式语体中通常可改用 smell bad 或 be very bad 等更中性的说法。
These words all end with the /ɪŋk/ sound and rhyme with stink. Note that spelling lookalikes ending in -ing or -ick, such as sting /stɪŋ/ and stick /stɪk/, are pronounced differently and do not rhyme.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.