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Smell/sniff
What do you say When you offer somebody to smell something like flowers. Smell the flower or sniff the flower?
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2019年9月8日 03:24
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You should say, e.g.: "Would you like to smell these flowers?". However, you can also use "sniff" in the context of flowers: "She gave the flowers a quick sniff to check they were real."
In other words, smelling can be done passively, you are just breathing normally and a scent enters your nose. To sniff is to breathe in sharply through your nose, usually when trying to actively smell something.
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2019年9月8日
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Sniffing can have overtones of disapproval or disdain. I wouldn't use sniff for anything fragrant!
How about inhale? Imbibe is possible too, although it literally implies 'drink'
2019年9月8日
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Zhuravleva Antonina
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