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单词 smell a rat
释义

rat1 /rat/

noun
  1. A genus (Rattus) of animals closely allied to mice, but larger
  2. Extended to various related or superficially similar animals
  3. A renegade or turncoat (from the rat's alleged desertion of a doomed ship; informal)
  4. A strike-breaker (informal)
  5. Someone who works for less than recognized wages (informal)
  6. A miserable or ill-looking specimen (informal)
  7. A despicable person (informal)
intransitive verb (rattˈing; rattˈed)
  1. To hunt or catch rats
  2. To desert or change sides for unworthy motives
  3. To act as an informer
  4. (of a worker) to work as a rat
ORIGIN: OE ræt; cf Ger Ratte

rats interjection (slang)

Expressing irritation, annoyance, etc

rattˈed adjective (slang)

Drunk

rattˈer noun

  1. A killer of rats, esp a dog
  2. A person who rats

rattˈery noun

  1. Apostasy
  2. A place where rats are kept or are abundant

rattˈily adverb

In a rat-like or ratty manner

rattˈiness noun

The quality of being rat-like or ratty

rattˈing noun

  1. Apostasy
  2. Rat-hunting

rattˈish adjective

  1. Rat-like
  2. Rat-infested

rattˈy (rattˈier; rattˈiest) adjective

  1. Rat-like
  2. Rat-infested
  3. Wretched
  4. Unkempt, untidy
  5. Angry, irritable (informal)

ratˈ-arsed adjective (vulgar sl)

Drunk

ratˈbag noun (slang)

  1. A term of abuse
  2. A despicable person

ratˈbite fever noun

A disease caused by infection with bacteria conveyed by the bite of a rat

ratˈ-catcher noun

  1. A professional killer of rats
  2. Unconventional hunting garb (slang)

ratˈ-catching noun

ratˈfish noun

  1. Another name for rabbitfish (see under rabbit1)
  2. An edible chimera of the N Pacific (Hydrolagus colliei)

ratˈ-flea noun

A flea that infests rats

ratˈ-guard noun

A metal disc put on a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a ship in port

ratˈhole noun

ratˈ-hunting noun

ratˈ-kangaroo noun

The potoroo, a marsupial of various species about the size of a rabbit, related to the kangaroo

ratˈpack noun (slang)

  1. A rowdy gang of young people
  2. A group of photographers aggressively pursuing famous people

ratˈ-pit noun

An enclosure where rats are worried by dogs

ratˈ-poison noun

Any poison for rats

ratˈproof adjective

rat race noun

  1. A continual round of hectic and futile activity
  2. The scramble to get on in the world by fair means or foul

rat run noun (informal)

A minor road heavily used by traffic trying to avoid major road congestion

ratsˈbane noun

  1. Poison for rats, esp white arsenic
  2. A name for many poisonous plants

rat snake noun

Any of several rodent-eating colubrid snakes, esp of the S Asian genus Ptyas, or the N American Elaphe

rat'sˈ-tail or ratˈ-tail noun

  1. The tail of a rat
  2. Anything like a rat's tail
  3. A thin coherent dangling lock of hair
  4. An excrescence on a horse's leg
  5. (ratˈ-tail) the grenadier fish

rat'sˈ-tail, ratˈ-tail or ratˈ-tailed adjective

  1. Having a tail like a rat
  2. Like a rat's tail
  3. (of a spoon) ridged along the back of the bowl

rat trap noun

  1. A trap for catching rats
  2. A toothed bicycle pedal
  3. An unpleasantly restricting situation

rat on

  1. To inform against (also rat out)
  2. To betray the interests of
  3. To desert

smell a rat

To have a suspicion that something is afoot

smell /smel/

noun
  1. The sense by which the odours of gases, vapours and very finely divided substances are perceived, located in the higher animals in the mucous membrane of the nose
  2. The specific sensation excited by such a substance
  3. The property of exciting it
  4. An act or instance of exercising the sense
  5. A pleasant scent or (often) an unpleasant one
  6. A smack, savour, sense, property of suggesting, intimation (figurative)
intransitive verb (pat and pap smelled or smelt)
  1. To affect the sense of smell
  2. To have an odour (esp unpleasant), or an odour (of)
  3. To have or use the sense of smell
  4. To have a savour, give a suggestion (of something) (figurative)
transitive verb
  1. To perceive, detect, find, by smell (often with out)
  2. To be aware of by intuition
  3. To take a smell at
  4. To impart a smell to
  5. To emit a smell of
ORIGIN: Very early ME smel, prob OE but not recorded

smellˈable adjective

smellˈer noun

smellˈiness noun

smellˈing noun and adjective

smellˈ-less adjective

smellˈy adjective

Having an unpleasant smell

smellˈ-feast noun (obsolete)

A sponger

smelling bottle noun

A bottle of smelling salts or the like

smelling salts plural noun

A preparation of ammonium carbonate with lavender, etc, used as a stimulant in cases of fainting, etc

smellˈ-trap noun

A drain-trap

smell a rat see under rat1

smell at

To sniff at, take a smell at

smelling of roses see under rose1

smell of

  1. To have the smell of
  2. To savour of

smell out

  1. To find out (eg a scandal) by prying
  2. To detect by witchcraft (S Afr)

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