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每日商务英语 第113期:闻到火药味

时间：2013-12-14 01:04:34

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 to smell gunpowder1 in the air 闻到火药味，察觉到不和的氛围

英文释义 To sense evidence of a noisy argument that is notoccurring now, but has just occurred or will occursoon.
例句 Neither of the two people who work for me said hello when I returned from lunch, and since Icould smell gunpowder in the air, I asked them what was wrong.吃完午饭回来，两个为我工作的人谁也不跟我打招呼。由于闻到了火药味，我便问他们出什么事了。

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1 gunpowder oerxm     
n.火药
参考例句：
  • Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.在14世纪上半叶，火药传入欧洲。
  • This statement has a strong smell of gunpowder.这是一篇充满火药味的声明。