SCENT

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Traducere în limba română

scent I. substantiv

1. (simţ) miros.

2. miros, parfum, mireasmă;

a rose that has no scent un trandafir fără miros / parfum.

3. (cinegetică) adulmecare, urmă;

to get on the scent / to pick up the scent a găsi urme;

to lose the scent / to he thrown off the scent a pierde urma;

to throw the police off the scent a deruta politic;

to get scent of smth. a prinde de veste.

4. fler, nas;

to have a good scent for young talent a avea fler pentru descoperirea tinerilor talente.

scent II. verb tranzitiv

1. a mirosi.

2. (cinegetică) a adulmeca.

3. a parfuma;

to scent one’s handkerchief a-şi parfuma batista.

4. to scent out a găsi, a da de urma (cu gen.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

White Fang had already scented it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“I was on the same scent as you from the first.”

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could tell from his expression that he was on a hot scent, and yet I could not in the least imagine in what direction his inferences were leading him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finally, having drawn every other cover and picked up no scent, I tried my luck with the housekeeper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once again the wife stood under the juniper-tree, and it was so full of sweet scent that her heart leaped for joy, and she was so overcome with her happiness, that she fell on her knees.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I know song and laughter, and success and pain, and struggle and death; and I see visions that arise in my brain somehow out of the scent of the grass, and I would like to tell them to you, to the world.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

We picked up the scent at Charing Cross Post-Office and came on here.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime I will do a little quiet work at your own doors, and perhaps the scent is not so cold but that two old hounds like Watson and myself may get a sniff of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The presence of the gipsies, and the use of the word ‘band,’ which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an entirely wrong scent.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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