每日商务英语 第113期:闻到火药味(在线收听

 to smell gunpowder in the air 闻到火药味,察觉到不和的氛围

英文释义 To sense evidence of a noisy argument that is notoccurring now, but has just occurred or will occursoon.
例句 Neither of the two people who work for me said hello when I returned from lunch, and since Icould smell gunpowder in the air, I asked them what was wrong.吃完午饭回来,两个为我工作的人谁也不跟我打招呼。由于闻到了火药味,我便问他们出什么事了。
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