La Palabra Del Dia: "oler"
oler ( oh-lehr' )
verb ( to smell (something); to smell (of something) )
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Examples:
1. Lleva demasiado perfume. La puedes oler desde lejos.
She has on too much perfume. You can smell her from far away.
2. El aliento de mi profesor huele a café viejo.
My professor's breath smells like old coffee.
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Me gusta pasar tiempo en la gasolinera donde huelo vapores de gasolina porque que me relaja.
I like to hang out at the gas station smelling gasoline because it relaxes me.
Mi esposa no le gusta cuando vuelvo del lago oliendo como a pescado.
My wife doesn't like it when I come back from the lake smelling like fish.
Este asunto huele a engaño.
It looks as though there’s been a swindle.
Me huele que se van a echar atrás. - "Me huele A que se van a echar atrás".
I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to back out.
Olíamos el aroma del café a cien metros.
We could smell the coffee a hundred yards off.
Sometimes I like jogging in the park after weeks because at certain times the smell of the plants is more intense.
A veces me gusta trotar por el parque después de tiempo porque así siento más profundo el olor de las plantas.
Los perros tienen un sentido de olfato mil veces más desarrollado que el nuestro. Ahora han empezado a usar perros para oler si la gente tiene cáncer o no, y parece que estos perros se equivocan menos que las maquinas.
Dogs have a sense of smell that is 1000 times more developed than our own. Dogs are now being used to sniff , in order to discover if people have cancer or not. It seems that these dogs make fewer mistakes than mechanical testing machines.
A veces me pregunto cómo sería si tuviera un sentido de olfato bien desarrollado como un perro y me formara una imagen mental del mundo oliendo cosas en vez de las mirando mirarlas.
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I were to have a well-developed sense of smell like a dog and I were to form a mental image of the world by smelling things instead of looking at them.
Los rollos de canela horneado huelen delicioso. [huelen que alimenta muy bien.]
The baking cinnamon rolls smell heavenly.
¡Uf! ¡Esa carne podrida huele malísimo!
Ugh! This rotten meat smells awful!
Hay alimentos que te hacen oler mal y sobre todo el ajo es tal alimento. A pesar de esto la gente lo come porque se dice que es muy sano.
There are foods that make you smell bad and particularly garlic is such a food. In spite of this people eat it because it is said to be very healthy.
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¿Comerías la comida si no te gustara su olor? Yo no lo haría.
Would you eat the food if you did not like its smell? I would not.
Angloparlantes a veces dicen, "Huelo una rata," cuando sienten que algo acerca de una situación no está todo bien, especialmente si sospechan engaño.
English speakers sometimes say, "I smell a rat," when they sense that something about a situation isn't quite right, especially if they suspect trickery.
Durante las guerras el café fue hecho de cebada tostada y ni olía ni saboreaba como un café con leche recién hecho en un bar en Andalucía hoy en día.
During the wars coffee was made from roast barley and it neither smelled like, nor tasted like , a white coffee made to order in an Andalucian bar these days.
La basura en la calle huele mal.
The rubbish in the street smells bad.
Este perfume huele a alcohol.
This perfume smells like alcohol.
Creo que huele mucho a gas. ¿No huelen nada?
I think there is a strong smell of gas. Isn't there?
