sniff out
英 [snɪf aʊt]
美 [snɪf aʊt]
发现; 找到; （狗）嗅找（炸药、毒品等）
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 发现;找到
If yousniff outsomething, you discover it after some searching.- ...journalists who are trained to sniff out sensation or scandal.
训练有素、能够敏锐地嗅出爆炸性新闻或丑闻的记者 - ...those who like sniffing out bargains.
喜欢淘便宜货的人
- ...journalists who are trained to sniff out sensation or scandal.
- PHRASAL VERB (狗)嗅找(炸药、毒品等)
When a dog used by a group such as the policesniffs outhidden explosives or drugs, it finds them using its sense of smell.- A police dog, trained to sniff out explosives, found evidence of a bomb in the apartment.
一只训练有素、专门嗅找炸药的警犬在公寓里发现了炸弹的痕迹。
- A police dog, trained to sniff out explosives, found evidence of a bomb in the apartment.
英英释义
verb
- recognize or detect by or as if by smelling
- He can smell out trouble
双语例句
- My heart is like a rabbit-like, so uneasy, feeling from the taste of coffee where you can sniff out an ambiguous atmosphere.
我的内心像小兔似的，如此忐忑不安，总觉得从咖啡的味道里可以嗅出暧昧的气息。 - The job for Lucky and Flo will be to sniff out optical discs in luggage or other containers, and stop the discs from getting to manufacturing plants where they can be reproduced.
猎犬拉基和弗洛的工作是嗅出隐藏在行李箱和其他容器中的光碟，防止这些光碟被带到加工厂去复制。 - MOSCOW ( Reuters)-Russian police battling fish smugglers have deployed a cat to sniff out contraband, including Caspian Sea sturgeon, the fish that produce Russia's world-famous caviar.
莫斯科（路透社）目前，正与鱼走私者进行斗争的俄罗斯警方配备了一只猫，来嗅出违禁品，其中包括里海鲟鱼，这种鱼可用来制造驰名世界的俄罗斯鱼子酱。 - Instead, he owes his success as a monetary policymaker to his ability to sniff out threats to the economy and manipulate interest rates to dampen the dangers he perceives.
相反，作为一个货币政策制定者，格林斯潘的成功是由于他能够嗅出经济所面临的威胁，从而调控利率，消除他所感受到的危险。 - Humans move much slower than computers, and are more likely to sniff out irregularities before they metastasize to unmanageable levels.
人类的速度比电脑慢很多，更有可能在不正常现象升级至难以掌控之前发现苗头。 - The police used dogs to sniff out the criminals in their hiding-place.
警察使用警犬查出了罪犯的藏身地点。 - An electronic nose that could sniff out explosives and food contaminants, could be hugely useful.
它的最新产品电子鼻能识别炸弹和遭到污染的食物，用途非常广泛。 - Mosquitoes can sniff out an attractive human dinner target from as far as 40 miles.
蚊子能从40英里之外嗅出合其口味的就餐目标。 - They are training these dogs to sniff out drugs.
他们训练狗嗅出毒品来。 - They may also pull the old wolf-in-sheep's clothing trick by cloaking themselves in the ants'chemical scent, a possibility the scientists are trying to sniff out.
他们也可以拉在旧狼披着羊皮的把戏隐藏在蚂蚁的化学气味自己的可能性，科学家们正试图嗅出。