• n. 恶臭；臭气
• vt. 使…散发恶臭
• vi. 发恶臭

来自古英语 stenc,气味，臭味，香味，来自 Proto-Germanic*stankwiz,气味，来自 PIE*steug, 扩大形式于 PIE*steu,推，击，释放，词源同 steep,type.后词义仅限于指臭味。

stench

stench: see stink

stench (n.)

Old English stenc "a smell, odor, scent, fragrance" (either pleasant or unpleasant), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (cognates: Old Saxon stanc, Old High German stanch, German stank). Related to stincan "emit a smell" (see stink (v.)) as drench is to drink. It tended toward "bad smell" in Old English (as a verb, only with this sense), and the notion of "evil smell" has predominated since c. 1200.

1. The stench from the sewer is indescribable.

下水道发出一股说不出的恶臭。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The stench from rotting food is stomach-churning.

腐烂食物散发的臭味让人反胃。

来自柯林斯例句

3. the sickening stench of burnt flesh

肉体燃烧所发出的令人作呕的恶臭

来自《权威词典》

4. an overpowering stench of rotting fish

腐烂的鱼臭气熏天

来自《权威词典》

5. The air was filled with the overpowering stench of decomposing vegetation.

空气中充满了令人难以忍受的腐烂植物的恶臭.

来自《简明英汉词典》