- 提出，提议，建议：
The specialist suggested that children should not eat too much sugar.
专家建议儿童不该吃太多的食糖。
My friend suggested my getting a job in a bank.
我的朋友建议我在银行找个工作。
- 推荐，举荐：
It was suggested that he be the chairman of the meeting.
他被举荐为大会主席。
- (事物)使人想到，使人联想到：
The smell of perfume suggests the girl whom I met in the plane on the way to Lisbon.
这种香水味令我想起了飞往里斯本的航班上遇到的那位姑娘。
The music suggests a still night.
这种音乐令人联想到宁静的夜晚。
- (间接地)表明，意思是：
The ring suggests that he was on the scene of the crime.
这只戒指表明他在作案现场。
OK,silence suggests agreement.
对，沉默就表示同意。
- 暗示：
She suggested that she did not want me to tell the truth.
她暗示我不要说出实情。
He did ignor what I suggeted to him.
他根本不理睬我对他的暗示。
- 启示，启发；促使做(或思考)：
Having been suggested by a bat, people invented sonar.
受到蝙蝠的启发，人们发明了声呐。
Social development suggests universal exploration.
社会的进步促使人类做出对宇宙空间的探索。