body odour

英 [ˈbɒdi əʊdə(r)]

美 [ˈbɑːdi oʊdər]

n.  汗臭; 体臭

牛津词典

noun

• 汗臭；体臭
  an unpleasant smell from a person's body, especially of sweat

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 body odor


• 汗臭；体臭
  Body odouris an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body.

英英释义

noun

• malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe
  Synonym:body odorB.O.

双语例句

• Her husband spent two-and-a-half years hunting, eating, howling and sleeping with four male wolves in a park-even restricting his diet to meat and not showering so his body odour would match theirs.
  她的丈夫用两年半的时间与四只公狼一起在公园里狩猎、吃东西、嚎叫和睡觉。为了让自己闻起来更像狼，他甚至只吃肉类，而且也不洗澡。
• Genes in the Major Histocompatibility Complex ( MHC), which helps build the proteins involved in the body's immune response, also play a prominent role in odour through interaction with skin bacteria.
  主要组织相容性复合物（MHC）内的基因，可以帮助构建参与身体免疫反应的蛋白，也通过与皮肤细菌相互作用，对显著影响身体气味。
• Half a lemon wiped on the armpits, for example, helps kill the bacteria that causes body odour as well as eliminating those ruining yellow stains on white garments created by the reaction between sweat and the aluminium in antiperspirants.
  比如，切半个柠檬涂抹在腋下，将有助于杀死导致体味的细菌，同时也可以避免由于止汗药里的铝与汗液作用而在白色衣服上造成的黄色斑迹。
• I have a senior colleague who is good at his job, but so bad with people, I think he may be on the autistic spectrum – as well as being a borderline alcoholic with bad body odour.
  我有一位资深同事，工作十分出色，为人却十分糟糕。我想他可能是个泛自闭症患者，还是个有体臭的边缘型酗酒者。
• Germans were deemed to have bad body odour, Englishmen were accused of letting women do all the work.
  德国男人被认为体味太重，英国男人被指不够主动。
• To the mosquito some people's sweat simply smells better than others because of the proportions of the carbon dioxide, octenol and other compounds that make up body odour.
  对蚊子而言，一些人的汗味，由于二氧化碳、八烯醇等组成身体气味的复合物比例，闻起来就是比其他人好。
• The authors said this 'showed that there are situations in which a person's unpleasant body odour increases others' helping behaviours toward this person '.
  作者说这表明有些情况下，一个人的体味会增加别人对他的帮助。
• Specific cells in one of the three organs that make up the mosquito's nose are tuned to identify the different chemicals that make up human body odour.
  蚊子鼻子的三个主要组成器官，其中一个器官的某些特别的细胞，会辨识构成人体气味的不同化学物质。
• However, they scored no more highly than the other men in terms of having a sexy voice or 'attractive' body odour, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society reports.
  然而，据《英国皇家学会会报》上的报道，这些男性在性感的声音和体味方面的得分并没有高出其他男性。
• This suggests that the role of such perfumes may be to flag up the underlying body scent rather than mask it, as a more traditional view of the aesthetics of body odour might suggest.
  就是说比起掩盖住，这些香水的作用更在于带出体味，正如一个更为传统的体味美学观点所提出的那样。