雨后空气里的味道、医院里的消毒水味、海边咸湿的气息——我们能闻到它们，却往往说不清它们。今天的视频带你走进“嗅觉语言学”，看看为什么英语总爱说“像什么味”，却很少直接描述气味本身。
Imagine the smell that lingers in the air after a big rainstorm.
How do you describe it?
Earthy, kind of musky, maybe just like rain?
You know the smell, but can you put it into words?
With sight, it's easy to categorize.
Bananas are yellow, stop signs are red, windows are translucent.
But when it comes to smell, our vocabularies falter.
Besides a handful of words, it's hard to describe a scent without using analogy, "It smells like cinnamon!" Or, "It's kind of fishy!" Take a second.
How many ways can you describe a smell without referring to the source?
I'll wait.
