词汇精选：sense的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

感官；官能 [C]

例句：

There is several verb relating to the five senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch.

有几个动词与视觉、 嗅觉、 听觉、 味觉、 触觉这五种感官有关。

例句：

I lost my sense of taste.

我丧失了味觉。

感觉；意识；观念(+of)(+that)

例句：

I have a sense of fatigue and hunger.

我有一种疲劳和饥饿的感觉。

例句：

A sense of trouble ahead oppressed my spirits.

前途困难重重的感觉使我精神沮丧。

智慧；见识 [U]

例句：

Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent, but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.

有勇气，有见识，有学问的人易遇，可是真正的君子难逢。

例句：

Well! If this is city life, I have enough sense of it.

哼！假如这就是城市生活，那么我见识够了。

辨别力，判断(+of) [U]

例句：

When that doesn't work they sometimes have the sense to seek help.

那种方法不奏效的时候，他们有时会想到要寻求帮助。

例句：

People with no sense of direction can easily get lost.

路痴经常迷路。

意义；意思 [C]

例句：

The sense of the word is not clear.

这个词的意义不明确。

例句：

The word here is used in its figurative sense.

此词在这儿取的是它的比喻意义。

（公众的）意见，意向 [U]

例句：

Last month that sense took her to Cuba.

受此意向推动，上月她来到了古巴。

例句：

In our sense, the agreement eliminates any ground for sanctions against Iran.

在我们看来，此项协议消除了制裁伊朗的任何理由。

知觉；理智

例句：

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. ——Lewis Carroll

留心你的理智，那么你的言辞就会自我留心了。——卡洛尔

例句：

No one in their right senses would let a small child go out alone.

凡是有理智的人，谁都不会让那麽小的孩子独自出门。

道理；益处，效用(+of/in) [U]

例句：

When he calmed down I brought him to reason by appealing to his sense of responsibility.

当他冷静下来时，我喻之以责任感，使他明白道理。

例句：

There's no sense in pretending this doesn't happen.

假装这件事没有发生毫无意义。

v.

感觉到，意识到(+that)(+wh-) [T]

例句：

They put on the agony to intensify the sense of danger and responsibility.

为了使人们思想上更加感觉到它的危险性和责任感，他们把它描述得过分痛苦。

例句：

She probably sensed that I wasn't telling her the whole story.

她可能意识到了我并没有对她全盘托出。