Intimation
[,ɪntɪ'meɪʃn] or [,ɪntɪ'meʃən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
(n.) Announcement; declaration.
(n.) A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
錄入:索尔
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Hint, suggestion, allusion, insinuation, INNUENDO.
昌西整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Hannah entered with the intimation that a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The stone by which he was seated, bore, in large characters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Mrs. Crawley returned a note with her compliments, and an intimation that it was not her custom to transact bargains with ladies' maids. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And yet in the absurdities which follow from some uses of the analogy, there seems to be an intimation conveyed that virtue is more than art. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The latter reflection took me back again to the Sergeant, with a polite intimation that I could not find it in my heart to leave him by himself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He had then not the least intimation of my intention to set up there or anywhere. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We judged, by the unlimited wording of the gracious intimation, that you would be giving yourself too much trouble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The letter, however, gave no intimation of the nature of the object for which I had been invited to appear before Mr. Edison. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- And must not the soul be perplexed at this intimation which the sense gives of a hard which is also soft? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This was not an agreeable intimation. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It was not long after that--not more than two or three days--when he gave me the first intimation of what I tell you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It would seem as if the man had had some intimation of what was in hand against him, or had taken fright? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Yes, he said, these intimations which the soul receives are very curious and require to be explained. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There are intimations of it even as early as More's _Utopia_ (1516). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To him she imparted those mysterious intimations which the soul feels, as the cords begin to unbind, ere it leaves its clay forever. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And so of the other senses; do they give perfect intimations of such matters? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There are few intimations of any such enthusiasm for the League at the present time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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