Intimation

(n.) The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

(n.) Announcement; declaration.

(n.) A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.

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• Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Hannah entered with the intimation that a poor lad was come, at that unlikely time, to fetch Mr. Rivers to see his mother, who was drawing away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The stone by which he was seated, bore, in large characters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Mrs. Crawley returned a note with her compliments, and an intimation that it was not her custom to transact bargains with ladies' maids. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And yet in the absurdities which follow from some uses of the analogy, there seems to be an intimation conveyed that virtue is more than art. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The latter reflection took me back again to the Sergeant, with a polite intimation that I could not find it in my heart to leave him by himself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He had then not the least intimation of my intention to set up there or anywhere. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We judged, by the unlimited wording of the gracious intimation, that you would be giving yourself too much trouble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The letter, however, gave no intimation of the nature of the object for which I had been invited to appear before Mr. Edison. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• And must not the soul be perplexed at this intimation which the sense gives of a hard which is also soft? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This was not an agreeable intimation. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It was not long after that--not more than two or three days--when he gave me the first intimation of what I tell you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It would seem as if the man had had some intimation of what was in hand against him, or had taken fright? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yes, he said, these intimations which the soul receives are very curious and require to be explained. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• There are intimations of it even as early as More's _Utopia_ (1516). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To him she imparted those mysterious intimations which the soul feels, as the cords begin to unbind, ere it leaves its clay forever. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And so of the other senses; do they give perfect intimations of such matters? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There are few intimations of any such enthusiasm for the League at the present time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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