reek

特に覚えたくなる単語や慣用句もなくThe Bridebroom was a Dogは読み終えてしまいました。想像力に乏しい私には話の展開や結末のどこが面白いのか、芥川賞が貰えたのか、主人公達がどこかに消えてしまうのと同様に、あっけにとられるだけでした。同じ著者の次の話 Missing Heelsを読みますが、これも題からして謎ですが、我慢して読みます。
When I then asked if she'd taken a bath last night before going to bed, seeing as she didn't reek of sleeping pills today, she was silent a moment before scolding: "You mustn't change the subject with no warning like that.
You're not a child," which ...
この話の文章も長いので一部だけ引用しています。覚えたい単語は "reek" です。辞書を引きます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Smell strongly and unpleasantly; stink: the yard reeked of wet straw and stale horse manure
・Collins Dictionary: (intransitive) to give off or emit a strong unpleasant odour; smell or stink: The scent of hashish drifted amidst the reek of tobacco; Liz sniffed in wry reminiscence.
しつこくVocabulary.comも見ます。
It smells absolutely rotten and offensive. Birds are falling from the sky because of the fumes. You might throw up from one whiff. Whatever it is, it reeks.
Shakespeare famously wrote about the "breath that from my mistress reeks," but that's not a nice way to talk about a girlfriend. The word usually describes smells, but can also be used to suggest something fishy, as in "the suspicious transactions reeked of mob involvement." But noses everywhere agree: Whether it's coming from your sneakers or from the aftermath of a shady deal, if something reeks ? it stinks to high heaven.
以前納豆の説明文で見たことのある単語でした。