sense
美 [sens]
英 [sens] 
- n.意识;意义;理智;判断力
- v.意识到;感觉到;觉察出;检测出
- 网络感官;意思;见识
词形变化
复数:senses 现在分词:sensing 过去式:sensed 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
视觉、听觉等sight/hearing, etc.
1. | [c] 感觉官能(即视、听、嗅、味、触五觉)one of the five powers (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) that your body uses to get information about the world around you |
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| Dogs have a keen(= strong) sense of smell. 狗的嗅觉很灵敏。 |
| the sense organs(= eyes, ears, nose, etc.) 感觉器官 |
| I could hardly believe the evidence of my own senses(= what I could see, hear, etc.) . 我简直不敢相信自己的感觉。 |
| The mixture of sights, smells and sounds around her made her senses reel. 四周的物象、气味和声音纷至沓来,使她晕头转向。 |
感觉feeling
2. | [c] (对重大事情的)感觉,意识a feeling about sth important |
| He felt an overwhelming sense of loss. 他感到非常失落。 |
| a strong sense of purpose/identity/duty, etc. 重大意义、很强的身份认同感、很强的责任感等 |
| Helmets can give cyclists a false sense of security . 头盔能给骑自行车的人一种虚假的安全感。 |
| I had the sense that he was worried about something. 我感觉他有心事。 |
理解;判断understanding/judgement
3. | [sing] 理解力;判断力an understanding about sth; an ability to judge sth |
| One of the most important things in a partner is a sense of humour(= the ability to find things funny or make people laugh) . 作为一个生活伴侣,最重要的素质之一是幽默感。 |
| He has a very good sense of direction(= finds the way to a place easily) . 他的方向感很强。 |
| She has lost all sense of direction in her life. 她完全丧失了生活的方向。 |
| Always try to keep a sense of proportion(= of the relative importance of different things) . 对事情随时都要把握好孰轻孰重。 |
| a sense of rhythm/timing 节奏感;时机感 |
| Alex doesn't have any dress sense(= does not know which clothes look attractive) . 亚历克斯对服装毫无鉴赏力。 |
4. | [u] 见识;良好的判断;清醒的认识good understanding and judgement; knowledge of what is sensible or practical behaviour |
| You should have the sense to take advice when it is offered. 你要知道好歹,别人给你忠告,就该接受。 |
| There's no sense in(= it is not sensible) worrying about it now. 现在大可不必为那件事忧虑。 |
| Can't you talk sense(= say sth sensible) ? 你就不能说点正经的? |
| There's a lot of sense in what Mary says. 玛丽说得很在理。 |
正常的精神状态normal state of mind
5. | [pl] 健全的心智;清醒的思维能力;理智a normal state of mind; the ability to think clearly |
| If she threatens to leave, it should bring him to his senses . 假如她威胁着要走,说不定他会清醒过来。 |
| He waited for Dora to come to her senses and return. 他盼着多拉冷静下来后回来。 |
| Are you out of your senses ? You'll be killed! 你疯了吗?你会丢了性命的! |
| Why does she want to marry him? She must have taken leave of her senses . 她怎么会要嫁给他呢?她准是脑子有毛病了。 |
意义meaning
6. | [c] 意义;含义;理解…的方式;看待…的角度the meaning that a word or phrase has; a way of understanding sth |
| The word ‘love’ is used in different senses by different people. “爱”这个字不同的人用来表示不同的意思。 |
| education in its broadest sense 最广泛意义上的教育 |
| He was a true friend, in every sense of the word(= in every possible way) . 无论从哪个角度讲,他都是个真正的朋友。 |
| In a sense(= in one way) it doesn't matter any more. 从某种意义上说,这事已无关紧要了。 |
| In some senses(= in one or more ways) the criticisms were justified. 在一定意义上,那些批评意见是有道理的。 |
| In no sense can the issue be said to be resolved. 无论如何这个问题都不能说已经解决了。 |
| There is a sense in which we are all to blame for the tragedy. 在某种意义上,对这个悲剧我们大家都有责任。 |
感觉become aware
1. | 感觉到;意识到;觉察出to become aware of sth even though you cannot see it, hear it, etc. |
| Sensing danger, they started to run. 他们感到有危险,撒腿就跑。 |
| Lisa sensed that he did not believe her. 莉萨意识到他不相信她。 |
| Thomas, she sensed, could convince anyone of anything. 她觉得,托马斯能说服任何人相信任何事。 |
| He sensed someone moving around behind him. 他感觉有人在他后面走动。 |
| He sensed something move in the bushes. 他察觉到灌木丛中有什么东西在动。 |
| She could sense how nervous he was. 她能感觉到他有多紧张。 |
机器of machine
2. | ~ sth 检测出to discover and record sth |
| equipment that senses the presence of toxic gases 检测有毒气体的设备 |
习惯用语
knock/talk some sense into sb
开导某人别干傻事;强使某人理智行事to try and persuade sb to stop behaving in a stupid way, sometimes using rough or violent methods
make sense
有道理;有意义;讲得通to have a meaning that you can easily understand
| This sentence doesn't make sense. 这个句子不通。 |
是明智的;合乎情理to be a sensible thing to do
| It makes sense to buy the most up-to-date version. 买最新的版本是明智的。 |
表述清楚;易于理解;道理明显to be easy to understand or explain
| John wasn't making much sense on the phone. 约翰在电话上说得不大清楚。 |
| Who would send me all these flowers? It makes no sense. 谁会给我送这么多花呢?真不可思议。 |
make sense of sth
理解,弄懂(不易理解的事物)to understand sth that is difficult or has no clear meaning
see sense
变得明智起来;开始明白事理to start to be sensible or reasonable
a sense of occasion
隆重的(或特别的)气氛a feeling or understanding that an event is important or special
| Candles on the table gave the evening a sense of occasion. 桌上点了一些蜡烛,使得那个晚上有一种特别的气氛。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
So should the Bank of England follow suit? The answer is: no. Another quarter of a percentage point cut now makes good sense.
那么英国央行应当效仿这一做法吗?答案是否定的。
milestones that create a sense of its dominance at a time when other nations continue to struggle with the aftermath of the crisis.
在其他国家仍在为摆脱危机的后续影响而苦苦挣扎之际,这些里程碑让人感受到中国的优势地位。
And just as this seeming fact of nature disheartened many Libyans, it bred a sense of untouchability in the dictator and his children.
这个貌似自然的事实使利比亚人民灰心,甚至自认为是理所当然的独裁者和他的子女们的贱民。
having proved his point , dr liu is now trying to design sensors that work more like the sense cells in a real lateral line.
在自己的想法得到验证后,刘博士目前正在试图设计一种工作方式更接近鱼类天然侧线系统中感觉细胞的传感器。
In a sense the commodification of image-making through copyright threatens to render it a commercial activity, one with no soul.
在一定意义上,通过版权将影像制作商品化威胁着将它变成一种没有灵魂的商业行为。
It learns early on which biological molecules are "self" , in the sense that they are routine parts of the body it is protecting.
免疫系统在早期阶段就了解了哪些生物分子属于“本体”,即免疫系统需要保护的身体的正常部分。
For most Greenlanders, the referendum was as replete with a sense of the righting of historic wrongs as Barack Obama's election in America.
对大多数格陵兰人来说,这次投票就如同奥巴马在美国的选举一样,充斥着纠正历史错误的意味。
In some cases, it makes sense to do this, and certain practices make it a tolerable process and investment.
在某些情况下,这种方法具有意义,并且一些特定的实践使它成为可行的流程和投资。
Recently, the general rise in price has caused great life pressure for the public, whose sense of happiness has also been decreased.
最近物价的普遍上涨已给我国民众造成了很大的生活压力,人们的幸福感也随之降低。
According to research, Swedish sperm donors do it out of a sense of altruism.
调查表明,瑞典的精子捐献者完全是出于自愿才那样做的。
After a couple dismal years of sales due to a global recession, manufacturers are exhibiting a renewed sense of creativity.
因为全球经济衰退,在经历了一段销售低迷期后,制造商们又在展示他们新的创造理念。
None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.
除了真正的公主,其他人不会有这么娇贵的感觉。
Little children seem to have an innate sense of the idea of fairness even apart from opposite conditioning experiences.
小孩子似乎有一种关于公平的天然感觉,即使社会经历相反。
It is the Company's intent to provide every opportunity for a new employee to acquire an immediate sense of "Company Belonging" .
这是公司刻意为新进同仁提供各种机会以获得立即的“公司归属感”。
Face to face with my students, only one resource is at my immediate command: my identity, my selfhood, my sense of the "I" who teaches.
说:当我面对我的学生时,我唯一可供使用的资源就是我自己:我的身份,我的自我,我对教学着的“自我”的感知。
Run some numbers to get a sense of how much capital you'll need to reach key milestones.
做一些统计让你明白到达一下个里程碑时需多少资金。
Though you might have the sense to approach your clothes in this deliberate way already, for me it was a breakthrough.
尽管你或许早已就知道要以这种有意识的方法去穿着打扮,但这对我来说却是一个突破。
Remember that the ego needs problems, conflict, and "enemies" to strengthen the sense of separateness on which its identity depends.
记住,自我需要问题、冲突和‘敌人’来强化它身份赖以生存的孤立感。
Fifty minutes and eight songs later we walked off the stage to applause, filled with a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
五十分钟过后,唱完八首歌的我们在掌声雷动中走下舞台,心里充满了巨大的成就感。
Keeping at it until a task is completed will also boost your sense of self-esteem and, over time, strengthen your self-discipline.
一口气完成一项任务也绝对会提升你的自尊感,随着时间的推移,巩固你的自律品质。
In this sense "screen" is usually taken to be of American origin.
作此义解的“screen”常被认为源自美国。
We have seen that every particular social happening, every single event in social life, can be said to be new, in a certain sense.
我们已看到,每一个特定的社会事件,社会生活的每一件事,在某种意义上都可以说是新的。
The new administration is going to bring a sense of discipline to all areas of our operations.
新领导将对我们业务的各个方面实行纪律约束。
It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity.
这是一个可由哀愁变为狂喜而又不引起任何严重不协调感的夜晚。
The sense of his own inferiority was heavy upon him.
他沉重地感到了自惭形秽。
Their fairly handsome faces, with the fairly kind expressions, were quickly and carefully regulated by a sense of compromise.
他们那相当漂亮的面孔、带着相当和蔼的表情,被一种妥协的意识迅速地、谨慎地调节着。
The drawings were pleasing enough with quite a sense of atmosphere, and something individual in the brush work.
那些画看了叫人喜欢,很有气氛,而且用笔有他独到的地方。
There was a feeling of horror, a kind that bristled in the darkness, and a sense of blood.
他们感到恐怖,在黑暗中毛骨悚然,如同眼看要出人命似的。
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
我已有几分醉意,并没有真醉,但谈起话来已经到了不择词句的程度。
She's a feminist, in the broadest sense of the word .
广义而言,她算是个女权主义者。
Without any sense of the complexities of any great task, he boldly assumed one function after another.
他不知餍足地担任一个接一个的职务,但对任何一件艰巨工作的复杂性却毫无所感。
So I stood and stared, and felt a sort of grim satisfaction in the sense of my own loneliness.
我就这么站着,凝视着,对自己的孤苦伶仃感到一种残忍的满足。
They did not have sense enough to see that the children were not the property of their parents at all.
他们想不到孩子根本不是父母的财产。
But I truly regret that no president since has had the provocative sense of humor that the thirty-second President of the United States had.
但是我确实感到遗憾的是,后来没有哪一位总统象美国第三十二届总统那样富有逗人乐趣的幽默感。
Eugenie turned her head aside, for her high sense of honour reproached her.
欧珍妮转过头去,良心在责备她。
She liked it, she wanted to be in the march, though she still had a vague sense of trespass, of false pretences.
她喜欢这样做,喜欢参加在这游行队伍里,虽然脑子里仿佛有一种侵害了别人和冒充的感觉。
But this evolution being unknown, there was an odd sense of ambivalence on the plane back from Beijing.
但是在离开北京的飞机上,由于当时还不知道事情的这种发展,人们有一种奇怪的复杂心理。
We soon reached the White House, which was to be in every sense our home for the next three weeks.
不久,我们就抵达白宫,这里从各方面说来将成为我们在以后三个星期内的家园。
She said she was delighted to see Miss Glover, thinking meanwhile that this estimable person's sense of etiquette was very tiresome.
她说她很高兴见到格洛弗小姐,一边又想着这位可尊敬的人的繁文缛节太令人厌倦了。
In another sense, the average speed of a body means the total length of path covered, divided by the elapsed time.
另一种含义是物体的平均速率,即物体运动所经过的全部路程除以所经过的时间。
Being abundant, every other care appeared to have subsided in the sense of enjoyment dependent on this all-important fact.
只要食物很充足,吃饭这个重要问题解决以后,他们对其他一切事物的兴趣好象都低落了下来。
He began to pity himself, but a sense of the absurdity of his thoughts made him smile.
他开始可怜自己,但又感觉到自己的想法荒谬而微笑了。
With your good sense, you could be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others!
凭你这样一个聪明人,竟会忠厚到看不出别人的愚蠢和无聊!
The light had changed, and it was the sense of this which had caused him to look up.
那时候天色正在变换,他感觉到这种变换,所以才抬起头来看了一看。
In a sense, it is possible to say that a clean and attractive room is the product that the accommodations industry offers.
在某种意义上,整洁、招人喜欢的客房可以说就是膳宿供应业所提供的产品。
The warm room lulled his blood and a deepening sense of fatigue drugged him with sleep.
温暖的房间缓和了他的血流,一阵越来越厉害的疲乏感给他带来浓重睡意。
Actors West had the smell of professionalism. Toby could sense it the moment he walked in the door.
西部演员学校有点专业性气氛,托比一进门就觉察到了这一点。
"You reckon folks really act like that? " Bigger asked, full of the sense of a life he had never seen.
“你合计人们真这样干事情吗?”别格问,对一种他从未见过的生活很有感触。
Bill has a great sense of humor, can tell a wonderful story at the drop of a hat, and goes hot air ballooning for relaxation.
比尔很有幽默感,随时都可以讲出一个奇妙的故事,并且会吹牛解闷。
The resolutions adopted are likely to be selected rather from a sense of duty, than from any inferior motive.
作出的任何决定,能从责任感出发,而不是出于其它卑鄙的动机。
What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation.
她还没有认识到,这种贪婪并不是与生俱来的乐观,而是绝望。
Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
这足以使苹果重新崛起为一家有魔力感的公司吗?
Initiative with a strong sense of responsibility, patient and meticulous, and with excellent professional ethics.
工作主动,责任心强,耐心细致,具有良好的职业道德。
Her sense of right and wrong was confused by a passion to which she had so madly surrendered herself.
她的是非感被她疯狂地陷入的那股热情搞乱了。
My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.
我时常怀着一种忧郁的心情,觉得自己从别人的工作中承袭太多,因而心里惴惴不安。
Suddenly, I began to hear the sound of my favorite aria. I could sense the aroma of a familiar aromatic substance.
我突然听到我最喜欢的咏唱调,又问道熟悉的香料散发出的芬芳。
For a small and affluent country like Singapore, the lack of a sense of crisis among its people is perhaps the biggest crisis for us.
对于小而富的新加坡来说,人民缺乏危机感,这本身就是危机,没有忧患意识就是最大的忧患。
She thought that she might want to be an architect, perhaps because her father's interest in the field, and she had a good sense of design.
她原来觉得自己想成为一个建筑师,也许是因为父亲对这个领域很感兴趣,加之自己也有设计的天赋。
China elements designed to combine the case with the completion of a simple image of the modern sense of style.
中国元素结合全案设计旨在完成一套带有朴实感的现代形象风格。
There is a picture of her, and you sense from her lovely smile that even if she wasn't famous, Sarah Mooney was a remarkable lady.
这里有一张她的照片,你可以从她可爱的微笑中感受到,即使并不出名,她仍是位很杰出的女士。
What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation.
她还没有认识到,这种贪婪并不是与生俱来的乐观,而是绝望。
Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
这足以使苹果重新崛起为一家有魔力感的公司吗?
Initiative with a strong sense of responsibility, patient and meticulous, and with excellent professional ethics.
工作主动,责任心强,耐心细致,具有良好的职业道德。
Her sense of right and wrong was confused by a passion to which she had so madly surrendered herself.
她的是非感被她疯狂地陷入的那股热情搞乱了。
My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.
我时常怀着一种忧郁的心情,觉得自己从别人的工作中承袭太多,因而心里惴惴不安。
Suddenly, I began to hear the sound of my favorite aria. I could sense the aroma of a familiar aromatic substance.
我突然听到我最喜欢的咏唱调,又问道熟悉的香料散发出的芬芳。
For a small and affluent country like Singapore, the lack of a sense of crisis among its people is perhaps the biggest crisis for us.
对于小而富的新加坡来说,人民缺乏危机感,这本身就是危机,没有忧患意识就是最大的忧患。
She thought that she might want to be an architect, perhaps because her father's interest in the field, and she had a good sense of design.
她原来觉得自己想成为一个建筑师,也许是因为父亲对这个领域很感兴趣,加之自己也有设计的天赋。
China elements designed to combine the case with the completion of a simple image of the modern sense of style.
中国元素结合全案设计旨在完成一套带有朴实感的现代形象风格。
There is a picture of her, and you sense from her lovely smile that even if she wasn't famous, Sarah Mooney was a remarkable lady.
这里有一张她的照片,你可以从她可爱的微笑中感受到,即使并不出名,她仍是位很杰出的女士。
There was a feeling of horror, a kind that bristled in the darkness, and a sense of blood.
他们感到恐怖,在黑暗中毛骨悚然,如同眼看要出人命似的。
"Have you so proved it to be a failing of mine, Tom? " said Louisa, showing no other sense of his discontent and ill-nature.
“你是不是拿准了这是我的一个缺点呢,汤姆?”露易莎除掉了这句话外,仿佛对他那愤懑的样子和坏脾气并没有别的什么感觉似的。
I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.
我已有几分醉意,并没有真醉,但谈起话来已经到了不择词句的程度。
It was like a dawn of a new sense to her.
这仿佛有一种新的感情在她的心里诞生。
She's a feminist, in the broadest sense of the word .
广义而言,她算是个女权主义者。
There is even a sense in which it is now possible to think of a European market for labor.
甚至还出现了这样一种意见,认为目前可以设想成立一个欧洲劳动力市场。
Only I had strangely enough lost any sense of having taken you so far into my confidence.
只是很奇怪,我完全不记得和你这样推心置腹过。
He had a sudden sense of alarm, a cold contraction in his stomach.
他突然感到一阵惊恐,胃都抽搐起来。
He shook these moods off with ease, however, for the man was possessed of a sense of grandeur.
但是他轻轻撇下了这种心情,因为这个家伙具有权势之感。
Mobility may be thought of in more than a fanciful sense, as the "pulse of the community. "
可以用一个更形象化的概念把流动想象成“社区的脉搏”。