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National Sense of Smell Day is an annual event sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute. It is an American holiday that takes place every year on the last Saturday of April. Many different events are organized at children’s museums and science centers across the country. There are usually many hands-on (or nose-on) activities for children to do to learn about the sense of smell. Activities can include finding out about different smells from around the world and remembering the smells from your childhood. The aim of the day is to raise awareness of how important the sense of smell is. We rarely think about how useful it is to be able to smell, and how it helps us survive in our lives.

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How important is your sense of smell to you? Most people say it is the least important of our five senses. Humans generally have a poor sense of smell. Dogs have noses that are up to one-hundred-million times more sensitive than ours. However, we can smell thousands of different things, whereas we can only separate taste into five different tastes. Most of us have a normal sense of smell, but some people have problems smelling. People who suffer from anosmia cannot smell at all, while people who have hyperosmia are very, very sensitive to smells. An unusual disorder is dysosmia things smell differently than they should. Perhaps chocolate smells like gasoline and roses smell like the sea.

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重点讲解

1.separate into 分成

例句：The action of heat will separate the chemical into a substance and oxygen.

热的作用会把这化学药品分解成氧气和另一种物质UJ59wIR6~,J0eMFXORU(。

2.smell like 闻起来像

例句：Maybe he won’t yell at me if I smell like a flower.

也许我闻起来像鲜花一样，他就不会朝我大喊大叫了Dhrbr#b;r]。

3.hands-on 亲自动手的

例句：Patty began reading everything she could get her hands on.

帕蒂开始阅读她能找到的所有东西8ssGEGUPCnCUnUr[8IPy。

4.sense of smell 嗅觉

例句：Dogs have an acute sense of smell.

狗的嗅觉很灵敏.