n.

1. 感官；官能[C]
2. 感觉；意识；观念[S][（+of）][+（that）]
   She has no sense of time.

   她没有时间观念。

   Your brother has a good sense of humor.

   你兄弟很有幽默感。

   He is free from any sense of responsibility.

   他丝毫没有责任感。

3. 智慧；见识[U]
4. 辨别力，判断力[S][U][（+of）]
   He had the good sense to withdraw from the election contest.

   他很明智，退出了竞选。

5. 意义；意思[C]
   The word here is used in its figurative sense.

   此词在这儿取的是它的比喻意义。

6. （公众的）意见，意向[U]
7. 知觉；理智[P]
   Anyone in his right senses wouldn't do that.

   神智清醒的人都不会去干那种事。

8. 道理；益处，效用[U][（+of/in）]
   What's the sense of arguing with him?

   同他争论有什么用处呢？

vt.

1. 感觉到，意识到[+（that）][+wh-]
   I sensed that I had made a serious mistake.

   我意识到自己犯了个严重的错误。

2. （机器等）检测；测出
3. 了解，领会

n.

1. a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
   ▸ (one's senses) one's sanity:

   she seems to have taken leave of her senses.
2. an awareness of something or feeling that something is the case.
3. a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
   ▸a reasonable or comprehensible rationale.
4. a way in which an expression or situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
5. chiefly Mathematics  & Physics  the property distinguishing two opposite but otherwise identical things, e.g. motion in opposite directions.
6. [as modifier] Genetics  relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.

v.

1. perceive by a sense or senses.
   ▸be vaguely or indefinably aware of.
2. (of a machine or similar device) detect.