You begin to hear, or perhaps smell, the slight whiff of jargon that pervades theoretical writing. It often does so for a reason.

你开始听出，或者嗅出遍布理论文章中的术语的味道,这往往是有道理的。

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You're on the phone with this guy all the time and you sniff something out, you can maybe stop it.

如果你和某人经常通话联系,并且嗅出了问题,你也许就不会借钱给他们了

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