释义 |
hint/hint/ n. & v.●n. 1 a slight or indirect indication or suggestion 暗示;示意 took the hint and left 领会了暗示,然后走了 2 a small piece of practical information 建议,指南 handy hints on cooking 烹饪指南 3 a very small trace; a suggestion 线索;细微的迹象 a hint of perfume 一丝香水味 ●v. tr. (often foll. by 常后跟 that + clause) suggest slightly 暗示,示意,提示 hinted the contrary 暗示正好相反; hinted that they were wrong 暗示他们错了 □ hint at give a hint of; refer indirectly to 暗示,提示 [apparently from obsolete hent ‘grasp, lay hold of’, from Old English hentan, from Germanic: related to HUNT] |