hint的意思

hint

英式音标[hɪnt]
美式英标[hɪnt]

基本解释

n. 暗示；线索

vt. 暗示；示意

vi. 示意

n. (Hint)人名；(英)欣特；(法)安特

中文词源

hint 暗示

来自中古英语hinten,告知，通知，来自古英语hentan,抓住，词源同hunt.引申词义暗示。

英文词源

hint (n.): c. 1600, apparently from obsolete hent, from Middle English hinten "to tell, inform" (c. 1400), from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *hantijan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt (v.). Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.
hint (v.): 1640s, from hint (n.). Related: Hinted; hinting.

实用例句

1. "I think I hear the telephone ringing."—"Okay, I can take a hint.": “我想我听到电话铃在响。”——“好的，我明白你的意思了。”

2. She'd never received the merest hint of any communication from him.: 她从未得到他准备沟通的一丁点儿暗示。

3. Diana took the hint and left them to it.: 戴安娜会意，任由他们自己去解决。

4. "What a pity," Graham said with a hint of sarcasm.: “太遗憾了，”格雷厄姆略带挖苦地说道。

5. They neglect their duty at the least hint of fun elsewhere.: 别处哪怕发生一丁点儿乐事，他们便会忘记自己的职责。

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