sense是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel -- 官能；感覺；知覺（尤指視覺、聽覺、嗅覺、味覺和觸覺）

  • With her excellent sense of smell, she could tell if you were a smoker from the other side of the room. 她嗅覺靈敏，在房間的另一端就能知道你是否抽煙。

  • My cold is so bad I've lost my sense of smell/taste (= I can't smell/taste anything). 我感冒很嚴重，聞不到任何氣味了／嚐不出任何味道了。

  • Did you get any sense of how they might react? 你預感他們會作何反應？

  • The helicopters hovering overhead added to the sense of urgency. 在頭頂盤桓的直升機加重了緊迫感。

  • Don't be angry - it was just a joke - where's your sense of fun? 別生氣——只是個笑話——你樂觀的天性哪裡去了？

  • She has a really good sense of humour. 她真的很有幽默感。

  • We have the same sense of humour. 我們有同樣的幽默感。

  • Come on, lighten up! Where's your sense of humour? 好了，放輕鬆點！你的幽默感哪裡去了？

  • The decorations, flowers, and crowds gave the town a real sense of occasion. 燈彩、鮮花和人群給小鎮帶來了十足的節慶氛圍。

• 1 the characteristic of having good judgment, especially when it is based on practical ideas or understanding -- （尤指基於切實的想法或理解的）理智，明智

  • [ + to infinitive ] I hope they'll have the (good) sense/have enough sense to shut the windows before they leave. 我希望他們走的時候會想到要關窗戶。

  • It makes (good) sense to buy a big pack because it works out cheaper in the end. 買大包的更划算，因爲最終算下來更便宜。

  • [ + -ing verb ] There's no sense in waiting (= it is not practical to wait) - the next train isn't for two hours. 繼續等下去是不明智的——下一趟火車要過兩個小時才會來。

  • Where's/What's the sense (= what is the advantage) in paying someone when you could get a volunteer? 既然你可以找一個志願者，何必花錢請人呢？

  • Planning so far ahead makes no sense - so many things will have changed by next year. 提前這麽久就計劃並不明智——到明年，許多事情都會發生變化。

  • Have you taken leave of/lost your senses? (= Have you lost your ability to make a good judgment?) 你瘋了吧？

  • It's time you came to your senses (= started to use your good judgment) and realized that they are not going to help you. 你該醒醒了，你該明白他們是不會幫你的。

  • The accident brought him to his senses (= caused him to use his good judgment again) and made him stop drinking. 這個意外使他醒悟過來，不再喝酒了。

• 2 one of the possible meanings of a word or phrase -- 含意，意義

  • They are not immigrants, at least not in any sense that I understand. 至少就我所理解的意義上來說，他們不是移民。

  • The packaging is green - in both senses of the word (= it is green in colour and it is good for the environment). 包裝是綠色的——這個「綠色」有兩層含義。

  • Security defined in the broad/broadest sense of the term means getting at the root causes of trouble and helping to reduce regional conflicts. 廣義上說，安全工作是指找出騷亂的根本原因並幫助減少地區衝突。

  • This passage doesn't make (any) sense (= the meaning is not clear). 這篇文章意思不清楚。

  • I've read the letter twice, but I can't make (any) sense of it (= I can't understand it). 我把信讀了兩遍，但還是不解其意。

  • It's a book which is, in every sense, about different ways of seeing the world. 從任何意義上說，這都是一本以不同角度看世界的書。

  • She claims that the system is at fault and she's right, in a sense (= she is partly right). 她主張現行制度有問題，從某種意義上說，她是對的。

  • We are in no sense obliged to agree to this. 我們絕不是非得同意這件事。

• 3 to feel or experience something without being able to explain exactly how -- 意識到；感覺到

  • Although she said nothing, I could sense her anger 儘管她甚麽都沒說，但我能感覺到她的憤怒。

  • He sensed something was about to happen. 他感覺到有事情要發生。

  • [ + (that) ] He sensed (that) his guests were bored, although they were listening politely. 儘管客人們在禮貌地聽著，但他意識到他們有些��煩。

  • [ + question word ] Could you sense what was likely to happen? 你能感覺到可能會發生甚麽事情嗎？