intimations

英 [ˌɪntɪˈmeɪʃənz]

美 [ˌɪntəˈmeɪʃənz]

n.  透露; 间接表示; 暗示
intimation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 暗示;提示
  Anintimationis an indirect suggestion or sign that something is likely to happen or be true.
  1. ...intimations of mortality...
     濒临死亡的征兆
  2. I did not have any intimation that he was going to resign.
     我一点儿都不知道他要辞职。

双语例句

• Or, must she receive those intimations-so obscure, yet so distinct-as truth?
  或许，她应该把那些如此含糊又如此明晰的暗示当作真理来接受吧？
• But now his pot belly is gone, his left arm looks nearly paralysed, and intimations of his mortality abound.
  但如今，他的大肚子瘪了下去，他的左臂似乎已经瘫痪，关于他死亡的消息也满天飞。
• But there was something in the latter's expression that warned back the magistrate, although a man not readily obeying the vague intimations that pass from one spirit to another.
  但是，牧师的表情中有一种推拒之意，令这位达官不敢上前，尽管他并不是那种乐于听命于人与人之间心息相通的隐约暗示的人。
• Late autumn contains intimations of a harsh winter to come.
  萧瑟深秋预示寒冷的冬天即将到来。
• We may still keep, as Wordsworth supposed, intimations of some ante-natal life, and know why we home like bees towards the song of a bird or the sparkle of sunbeams on water.
  如华兹华斯所想，我们可能仍保留有一些对胎儿生活的知觉，并知道我们向小鸟的歌声，或是水上的波光趋之若鹜的原因。
• Like many others before me, I have experienced intimations of immortality.
  像许多我的前辈一样，我经历过不朽的暗示。
• The Heart is an artifact of significant malevolent power and may be of some use. If these intimations of a something behind and beyond are not evil humour born of indigestion.
  这颗心脏是一项具有强大的邪恶力量的宝物，你或许用得上它。如果对某种玄妙的事物的暗示不是误解所致的邪念。
• Hassan finds the characteristics of "expression-wordless" and "self-question" in the avant-garde literature, in which the literature began to turn against itself and aspire to silence, and led us behind with uneasy intimations of outrage and apocalypse.
  哈桑发现，先锋派文学中有一种无以言表和自我质疑的特性，文学开始转向反对自身，渴望沉默，留给我们的是愤怒和启示的种种暗示。
• Chapter VIII intimations by winter& an Ambassador summoned
  第八章冬天的暗示：特使受召
• All Rudolph's tactful intimations about keeping a single modest style for the center had fallen on deaf ears.
  鲁道夫用了种种转弯抹角的暗示要求在中心保持一种谦虚的风格，都成为耳旁风。