| 词汇 | intimation |
| 释义 | intimation noun[ C ] formaluk /ˌɪn.tɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌɪn.t̬əˈmeɪ.ʃən/ the action of making clear what you think or want without saying it directly, or something that makes something clear in this way: 暗示 His suicide attempt was the first intimation that he was seriously depressed.他尝试过自杀是他严重抑郁的第一个征兆。 The book's title gives a fair enough intimation of its subject.这本书的书名充分暗示了它的主题。 Synonyms hint(INDIRECT STATEMENT) implication imputationformal indication(SIGN) innuendo insinuation suggestion See intimate There was no intimation of danger. She left me without the slightest intimation of who my father was. Death around us can give us intimations of our own mortality. Suggestions & proposals about bounce something off someone can't co-sponsor co-sponsorship drop imply make noisesidiom maybe move mover nomination on the tableidiom proposition put someone to somethingidiom put something in put something up resubmission resubmit table Examples of intimationintimation These projects which became rightly famous convey, today still, an intimation of liberating, buoyant creation, bubbling up from within the deep sea of historicism. A final, more tentative, theme in that same capitalist press was that the affair contained disquieting intimations of a challenge or threat to civilization itself. Intimations of a beyond or transcendent triggered by music, for instance, are intimations that there is a beyond or transcendent. But we might receive these new accounts as reasonable confirmation of our prior intimation of something undisclosed. Dreams are an intimation of what space is like. Not just an intimation of potential political change, this passage declares the revolution at hand. Rather than an isolated instance of revolutionary zeal, this intimation of insurgency appears throughout the book. But the food industry's presence at, and strong reactions to, official discussions of obesity and its causes have helped to hinder most intimations of regulation. The intimations of higher development among the subordinate animal species, however, can be understood only after the higher development is already known. There are hints as to which of the ' molecules of life ' came first and intimations of a different genetic system in our ancestry. There have been earlier intimations that the future might see the decline of mankind, if not of life on earth in general. Or is it that the intimation of mortality induced by ill-health was a creative spur from the outset? Again, desires, intuitions, and intimations are propositional attitudes although the propositions they take as objects are often vague and imprecise. The intended audience of this series, which offered large, low-priced editions for student sales, no doubt valued his subtle intimations of a revolution in thought already in progress. Still, intimations can be found. See all examples of intimation These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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