feeling、sensation、sense与perception这些名词均含“感觉”之意。
feeling : 最普通用词，既可指身体上的感觉，如冷暖、饥饿、疼痛等，又可指精神上的感觉，如喜、怒、哀、乐、失望等。
- I had a tingling feeling in my fingers.
我手指感到刺痛。 - I've got this strange feeling in my stomach.
我的胃里有这种怪怪的感觉。 - My toes were so cold that I'd lost all feeling in them.
我的脚趾冻得完全失去知觉了。
sensation系较严密的科学用词，指听觉、味觉、视觉、嗅觉或触觉；还可指引起激动或轰动的事物。
- a burning sensation
灼烧的感觉 - I had no sensation of pain whatsoever.
我没有任何痛苦的感觉。 - The disease causes a loss of sensation in the fingers.
这种病会使手指失去知觉。
sense : 主要指人或动物身体上的感觉。复数形式指人的知觉。
- With her excellent sense of smell, she could tell if you were a smoker from the other side of the room.
她嗅觉灵敏，在房间的另一端就能知道你是否抽烟。 - My cold is so bad I've lost my sense of smell/taste (= I can't smell/taste anything).
我感冒很严重，闻不到任何气味了／尝不出任何味道了。
perception : 侧重对外界刺激的反应和对产生感觉的物体的辨别。
- Drugs can alter your perception of reality.
毒品会改变你对现实的感知。
