What's the difference between feel and sense=?big5?Q?=3F?=
For example: I feel something here. I sense something here. They are both translated into Chinese with the same sentence. So I can't distinguish the difference between them. Could anyone tell me what the different meaning among them?
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[nq:1]For example: I feel something here. I sense something here. They are both translated into Chinese with the same sentence.
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[nq:1]For example: I feel something here.
I sense something here.
They are both translated into Chinese with the same sentence.
So I can't distinguish the difference between them.
[/nq] You have five senses.
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[nq:1]For example: I feel something here. I sense something here. They are both translated into Chinese with the same sentence. So I can't distinguish the difference between them. Could anyone tell me what the different meaning among them?[/nq] You have five senses. Sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell.
You only feel with touch. You can sense with any of the five.
The different is slight here. The key question is, are you touching it? If you are, you cannot "sense" it. The full range of the differences in meaning between "feel something" and "sense something" is rather complex. There is also a series of formal usage controverseries involved. If you require such an explanation, I strongly encourage you to buy a standard usage manual.
actually, you could indeed sense something where you may indeed be touching it physically... though, you may not touch fear (unless poetically) as fear is not physical, whereas you may indeed sense fear...
[nq:2]For example: I feel something here. I sense something here. ... Could anyone tell me what the different meaning among them?[/nq] [nq:1]You have five senses. Sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell. You only feel with touch. You can sense with any of the five.[/nq] The verb "feel" also means to have a thought, usually one based on emotion or intuition as opposed to logic. In this case