scent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 气味, 香味; 香水; 踪迹, 臭迹, 线索; vt. 嗅出, 闻到, 察觉, 怀疑有，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Preparations commenced the same day, but as secretly as possible to prevent the Indians getting scent of it.
-- Had he caught scent of some party of Indian marauders, or of jaguars, water tigers, and other terrible animals that haunt the neighborhood of rivers?
-- Besides, the natives who scent a wreck as the vultures do a dead body, would have pounced upon it and carried off the smaller DEBRIS.
-- The murderers had no doubt hoped, by dragging their victim to a distance, that the police would be put on a wrong scent in their first inquiries.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In doing so I held it within a few inches of my eyes, and was conscious of a faint smell of the scent known as white jessamine.
-- The scent suggested the presence of a lady, and already my thoughts began to turn towards the Stapletons.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The scent turns out to be false, and the ad-dress given is a sham.
-- 'Quite so, nonsense!Ha, ha, ha!dear me!He did amuse me, did the general!We went off on the hot scent to Wilkin's together, you know; but I must first observe that the general was even more thunderstruck than I myself this morning, when I awoke him after discovering the theft; so much so that his very face changed he grew red and then pale, and at length flew into a paroxysm of such noble wrath that I assure you I was quite surprised!He is a most generous-hearted man!He tells lies by the thousands, I know, but it is merely a weakness; he is a man of the highest feelings; a simple-minded man too, and a man who carries the con-viction of innocence in his very appearance.
-- He is going to town with me now; for you must know I am off to Petersburg after Fer-dishenko, while the scent is hot; I'm certain he is there.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She cleansed all the dirt from her fair body with am-brosia, then she anointed herself with olive oil, ambrosial, very soft, and scented specially for herself if it were so much as shaken in the bronze-floored house of Jove, the scent pervaded the universe of heaven and earth.
-- The fawn may try to elude him by crouching under cover of a bush, but he will scent her out and follow her up until he gets her even so there was no escape for Hector from the fleet son of Peleus.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are as much off the scent as a hound would be, with Horican atwixt him and the deer!
-- 'They scent danger in the wind!'
-- We must, then, turn in our trail and get without the line of their lookouts, when we will bend short to the west, and enter the mountains; where I can hide you, so that all the devil's hounds in Montcalm's pay would be thrown off the scent for months to come.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And the scent is simply gorgeous.'
-- 'The scent is what I object to,' he said.
-- There was a fresh sweet scent on the air.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seemed to scent a creditor.
-- In the occasional leap of a fish, or dip of an oar, or twittering of a bird not yet at roost, or distant barking of a dog, or lowing of a cow in all such sounds, there was the prevailing breath of rest, which seemed to encompass him in every scent that sweetened the fragrant air.
-- The air there was charged with the scent of gathered grapes.
-- Again, there would be places where they stayed the week together in splendid rooms, had banquets every day, rode out among heaps of wonders, walked through miles of palaces, and rested in dark corners of great churches; where there were winking lamps of gold and silver among pillars and arches, kneeling figures dotted about at confessionals and on the pavements; where there was the mist and scent of incense; where there were pictures, fantastic images, gaudy altars, great heights and distances, all softly lighted through stained glass, and the massive curtains that hung in the doorways.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Depend on it, they're on the scent down there; and that if he moved, he'd blow upon the thing at once.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Walk among the magnificent residences, the splendid equipages, the gilded shops, restaurants, resorts of all kinds; scent the flowers, the silks, the wines; drink of the laughter springing from the soul of luxurious content, of the glances which gleam like light from defiant spears; feel the quality of the smiles which cut like glistening swords and of strides born of place, and you shall know of what is the atmosphere of the high and mighty.
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