喜樂美語

The nose on your face: the part that pokes out in front, leads the way when you lean in, and is what you use to and detect smells. Hold three pictures together: it STICKS OUT in front, it SMELLS/detects, and where you point it shows your attitude.

可以想成你臉上那個鼻子：它在臉的最前面「突出來」，你往前湊時是它先到；它能「嗅、聞」、察覺氣味；而你把鼻子往哪擺，也透露出你的態度。整個 nose 家族大多就從這三件事長出來——往前突出、嗅探察覺、以及鼻子的擺向所代表的姿態。

Two branches

鼻子本體與它的延伸（突出的前端、嗅覺、向前探）

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nose (body part) · noun · A1

The part of your face, above your mouth, that you use to smell things and to breathe.

鼻子

鼻子的比喻用法（探聽、管閒事、態度姿態的慣用語）

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under someone's nose · noun · A1

In 'under someone's nose': used when something bad happens very close to a person but they fail to notice it.

在某人眼皮底下（卻沒察覺）

同家族的字

n複數 noses

v過去式 nosed過去分詞 nosed-ing nosing三單 noses

意思相反

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原始詞典資料23 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

nosenoun[nəʊ̯z]

  • 1

    A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

    • She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
    • The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
  • 2

    A snout, the nose of an animal.

  • 3

    The tip of an object.

    • the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
    • We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
  • 4

    The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.

  • 5

    hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingThe length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

    • Red Rum only won by a nose.
  • 6

    A perfumer.

    • Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant.
  • 7

    The sense of smell.

    • We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.
  • 8

    Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.

另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The skill in recognising bouquet.

    • It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
  • 10

    Skill at finding information.

    • A successful tabloid reporter has a nose for gossip.
    • I got to know one or two other girls who wrote, and they told me that my sort of stuff would be all right when I got into the peerage or became a leading lady, but if I wanted to live meanwhile it was absolutely necessary to cultivate a "news-nose".
  • 11

    The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop

    • They had a nose around the abandoned property.
  • 12

    architectureA downward projection from a cornice.

  • 13

    slangAn informer.

    • […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]

noseverb[nəʊ̯z]

  • 1

    To move cautiously by advancing its front end.

    • The ship nosed through the minefield.
    • Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.
  • 2

    To snoop.

    • She was nosing around other people’s business.
  • 3

    To detect by smell or as if by smell.

    • […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.
    • Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.]
  • 4

    To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.

    • [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]
  • 5

    To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.

  • 6

    To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

    • to nose a prayer
    • It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.
  • 7

    To furnish with a nose.

    • to nose a stair tread
  • 8

    To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive

  • 10

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.

    • The plane is nosing up!
    • We have to get it nosing down.

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