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1·Odours are also essential cues in social bonding.

气味也是社会联系的基本线索。

2·Odours affect us on a physical, psychological and social level.

气味在身体、心理和社会层面都影响着我们。

3·Nor can odours be recorded: there is no effective way to either capture or store them over time.

气味也不能被记录下来：没有有效的方法能够捕捉或储存它们。

4·Odours, unlike colours, for instance, cannot be named in many languages because the specific vocabulary simply doesn't exist.

例如，与颜色不同的是，气味在许多语言文字中都无法命名，因为特定的词汇根本不存在。

5·Our noses are able to recognise thousands of smells, and to perceive odours which are present only in extremely small quantities.

我们的鼻子能够识别成千上万种气味，也可以感知那些极其微量的气味。

6·In fact, infants recognise the odours of their mothers soon after birth and adults can often identify their children or spouses by scent.

事实上，婴儿在出生后不久就能识别出母亲的气味，而成年人通常能通过气味识别出自己的孩子或配偶。

7·Odours are invested with cultural values: smells that are considered to be offensive in some cultures may be perfectly acceptable in others.

气味与文化价值息息相关：在某些文化中被认为是令人讨厌的气味，在另一些文化中却完全可以被接受。

8·The perception of smell, therefore, consists not only of the sensation of the odours themselves, but of the experiences and emotions associated with them.

因此，嗅觉不仅包括对气味本身的感觉，还包括与之相关的生活体验和情感。

9·Researchers have still to decide whether smell is one sense or two—one responding to odours properly and the other registering odourless chemicals in the air.

研究者们还需要判断嗅觉到底是一种还是两种感觉，一种感觉回应气味本身，另一种感觉记录空气中无味的化学成分。

10·Other unanswered questions are whether the nose is the only part of the body affected by odours, and how smells can be measured objectively given the nonphysical components.

其他悬而未决的问题是，鼻子是否是全身中唯一受气味影响的部位，而且考虑到气味的非物质性成分，怎样才能够客观地测定它。

气味

1·Our noses are able to recognise thousands of smells, and to perceive odours which are present only in extremely small quantities.

我们的鼻子能够识别成千上万种气味，也可以感知那些极其微量的气味。

2·In fact, infants recognise the odours of their mothers soon after birth and adults can often identify their children or spouses by scent.

事实上，婴儿在出生后不久就能识别出母亲的气味，而成年人通常能通过气味识别出自己的孩子或配偶。

3·The perception of smell, therefore, consists not only of the sensation of the odours themselves, but of the experiences and emotions associated with them.

因此，嗅觉不仅包括对气味本身的感觉，还包括与之相关的生活体验和情感。

4·Nor can odours be recorded: there is no effective way to either capture or store them over time.

气味也不能被记录下来：没有有效的方法能够捕捉或储存它们。

5·Odours are also essential cues in social bonding.

气味也是社会联系的基本线索。