- a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch官能; 感觉：
the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk.
熊有敏锐的嗅觉, 这使它能够在黄昏时捕猎。
- a feeling that something is the case感觉; 判断力：
she had the sense of being a political outsider.
她有置身政治之外的感觉。
- an awareness or feeling that one is in a specified state觉察; 感觉：
you can improve your general health and sense of well-being.
你可以提高你的总体健康水平和幸福感。
- (sense of) a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something意识; 敏感：
she had a fine sense of comic timing.
她有良好意识, 能准确把握逗人发笑的时机。
- mass noun a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems见识; 智慧：
he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings.
他在会上表现出了良好的见识而赢得了尊敬。
- a reasonable or comprehensible rationale道理; 合理性：
I can't see the sense in leaving all the work to you.
我看不出有什么理由把所有工作留给你去做。
- a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning含义; 意义：
it is not clear which sense of the word 'characters' is intended in this passage.
不清楚这篇短文中想要用单词"characters"的哪一个含义。
- chiefly Mathematics & Physics a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other【主数, 主物理】指向; 方向。
- as modifier Genetics relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence【遗传】有意义的。
- perceive by a sense or senses感觉到; 觉察到：
with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days.
随着第一场霜降, 他们能感觉到气候的变化。
- be aware of意识到：
she could sense her father's anger rising.
她能意识到她爸爸发火了。
- with clause be aware that something is the case without being able to define exactly how one knows觉察到：
he could sense that he wasn't liked.
他能觉察到他不受人喜欢。
- (of a machine or similar device) detect（机械装置）检测, 测出：
an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor.
光纤能检测出导体中的电流。
bring someone to their（或come to one's）senses
- restore someone to (or regain) consciousness使恢复知觉。
- cause someone to (or start to) think and behave reasonably after a period of folly or irrationality使恢复理智。
in a（或one） sense
- used to indicate a particular interpretation of a statement or situation在某种意义上：
in a sense, behaviour cannot develop independently of the environment.
在某种意义上, 行为不能独立于环境而发展。
in one's senses
- fully aware and in control of one's thoughts and words; sane思维正常的; 清醒的：
would any man in his senses invent so absurd a story?
思维正常的人会编造这么一个荒唐的故事吗？
make sense
- be intelligible, justifiable, or practicable可理解; 有根据; 可行。
make sense of
- find meaning or coherence in理解; 弄懂：
she must try to make sense of what was going on.
她必须尽量弄懂正在发生的一切。
out of one's senses
- in or into a state of madness发疯的, 失去理智的。
a sense of direction
- a person's ability to know without explicit guidance the direction in which they are or should be moving方向感。
take leave of one's senses
- (in hyperbolic use) go mad［用于夸张］发疯。