smell
noun
cheiro
EN The forest seemed full of the smell of burning wood.
GL O bosque parecía cheo do cheiro da madeira queimada.
Fonte: TEM (1614)
olor
EN It seemed odd that a man's smell should cling in the folds of curtains so long after the man himself had become dead matter, a gas, a decay.
GL Parecía mentira que o olor dun home se mantivese tanto tempo agarrado aos pregos das cortinas, aínda despois de que ese home fose xa materia morta, gases, podredume.
Fonte: TER (890)
aroma
EN Yes, it was her body he smelt, a wild and languid smell, the tepid limbs over which his music had flowed desirously and the secret soft linen upon which her flesh distilled odour and a dew.
GL Si, era o corpo dela o que ulía, un aroma salvaxe e lánguido, os membros mornos sobre os que a súa música fluíra ansiosa e a roupa íntima e suave na que a carne da rapaza destilaba perfume e orballo.
Fonte: RET (4686)
olfato
EN The news of it was borne in upon him, not by sight, or sound, or smell, but by some other and subtler sense.
GL Buck tamén se decataba desas transformacións, pero non por medio da vista ou do olfato, senón gracias a unha percepción moito máis sutil.
Fonte: CHA (1580)
transitive verb
PAST: smelled, smelt; PART: smelled, smelt |
cheirar
EN He was reading the Atlantic Monthly, and there were pills and medicine all over the place, and everything smelled like Vicks' Nose Drops.
GL Estaba a le-lo Atlantic Monthly, e había píldoras e medicinas por todas partes, e cheiraba a gotas Vicks para o nariz.
Fonte: VIX (173)
arrecender
EN Then they took all this with their clean hands (they wore grey-coloured clothes; they smelt of heather) and they brushed the scraps together, turning the paper, crossing their knees, and said something now and then very brief.
GL Collían todo aquilo coas súas mans limpas (levaban traxes grises; arrecendían a breixo), mesturaban unha cousa con outra mentres pasaban as páxinas e cruzaban as pernas e, de cando en vez, facían un comentario breve.
Fonte: CAR (3010)
ulir
EN And he could smell the sharp odor of exposed kelp from the receding tide.
GL E ulía o penetrante cheiro das algas deixadas pola marea que se retiraba.
Fonte: PER (951)
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