nose about

nose about

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• un.嗅；聞；(喻)探聽；搜查
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英漢解釋

un.	1. 嗅;聞;(喻)探聽;搜查;偵查:

英英解釋

un.	1. smell for;(fig.)pry or search for

例句

It has a horn upon its nose, about a cubit in length; this horn is solid, and cleft through the middle.

它在鼻子上面有一個角，大約一肘的長度；這個角非常堅固，從中間長出來。

But the wall is interrupted by a deep ditch, where pigs nose about with birds perched on their backs.

但是這堵墻被一條很深的水溝一分為二，在那里豬邊走變嗅，小鳥在它們的背上休息。

After the chief accountant had bloodied Olive's nose about errors in the figures, she took much more care over checking them.

自從總會計師責備奧列夫在做帳時發生數字差錯后，她在核對數字時小心多了。

It is not a good habit to nose about for other's grapevine news.

打探別人的隱私是個不好的習慣。