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：
-- Remember, if any accident should befall me, to keep the air blowing on your left cheeks or, rather, follow the Mohi-cans; they'd scent their way, be it in day or be it at night.'
-- I see it in your eye, Sagamore; a Huron pays for this, afore the fall winds have blown away the scent of the blood!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The traps were besides extremely simple; being pits dug in the ground, a platform of branches and grass above, which concealed the opening, and at the bottom some bait, the scent of which would attract animals.
-- Accustomed to go far into the regions of scientific reality, he would not allow himself to be drawn into the regions of the strange and almost of the supernatural; but yet how to explain why Top, one of those sensible dogs who never waste their time in barking at the moon, should persist in trying with scent and hearing to fathom this abyss, if there was nothing there to cause his uneasiness?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- and a nose, also supposed to be the property of that gentleman, was heard to inhale the scent with a snuffle of exceeding pleasure.
-- The sky was serene and bright, the air clear, perfumed with the fresh scent of newly fallen leaves, and grateful to every sense.
-- And now, indeed, it seemed that Quilp's malignant career was drawing to a close, and that retribution, which often travels slowly especially when heaviest had tracked his footsteps with a sure and certain scent and was gaining on him fast.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What mattered it to her just then that the rushes had begun to fade, and to lose all their scent and beauty, from the very moment that she picked them?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the moment, the sunshine fell brightly into the churchyard, there was a vague scent of sap and of spring, perhaps of violets from off the graves.
-- But Gerald was now on the scent of argument.
-- Ursula loved the situation, the white table by the cedar tree, the scent of new sunshine, the little vision of the leafy park, with far-off deer feeding peacefully.
-- So, with the scent of tobacco on the night air, they set off down the dark drive that ran between close-cut hedges through sloping meadows.
-- There was a scent of eau-de-Cologne in the room.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I smelt the rich scent of the heating spices; and admired the shining kitchen utensils, the polished clock, decked in holly, the silver mugs ranged on a tray ready to be filled with mulled ale for supper; and above all, the speckless purity of my particular care the scoured and well swept floor.
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