每日商務英語 第113期:聞到火藥味
to smell gunpowder in the air 聞到火藥味,察覺到不和的氛圍
英文釋義
To sense evidence of a noisy argument that is not occurring now, but has just occurred or will occur soon.
例句
Neither of the two people who work for me said hello when I returned from lunch, and since I could smell gunpowder in the air, I asked them what was wrong.
吃完午飯回來,兩個為我工作的人誰也不跟我打招呼。由於聞到了火藥味,我便問他們出什麼事了。