intimation
英 [ˌɪntɪˈmeɪʃn]
美 [ˌɪntɪˈmeɪʃn]
n. 透露; 间接表示; 暗示
复数：intimations
BNC.18734 / COCA.21089
牛津词典
noun
- 透露；间接表示；暗示
the act of stating sth or of making it known, especially in an indirect way- There was no intimation from his doctor that his condition was serious.
他的医生没有透露他的病情很严重。
- There was no intimation from his doctor that his condition was serious.
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.- ...intimations of mortality...
濒临死亡的征兆 - I did not have any intimation that he was going to resign.
我一点儿都不知道他要辞职。
- ...intimations of mortality...
英英释义
noun
- a slight suggestion or vague understanding
- he had no inkling what was about to happen
- an indirect suggestion
- not a breath of scandal ever touched her
双语例句
- I did not have any intimation that he was going to resign.
我一点儿都不知道他要辞职。 - Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything.
布朗象没有听见似的，无任何表示。 - It is a faint intimation, yet so are the first streaks of morning.
这是一个隐隐约约的暗示，好像黎明的微光一样。 - Most interpreters take it that the Precursor had some intimation of Jesus being the Messias: they assign this as the reason why John at first refused to baptize him;
大多数诠释者都把这位先驱者看成是弥赛亚耶稣的一些预示：他们为约翰为何起初拒绝为他受洗作了一些理由； - He had no intimation that he was on the point of another disaster.
他未意识到他即将遭到另一场灾难。 - At this intimation the gun club merely shrugged its shoulders and returned to its great work.
听了这个消息，大炮俱乐部的会员们只耸了耸肩膀，就继续进行伟大的工作去了。 - The first intimation of this was the ecology movement of the1970s, which alerted us to the fact that some of you were awakening to a recognition of the overwhelming importance of nature.
第一次的关于此的正式宣告发生在1970年代的生态运动，提醒你们一个事实：你们中的一些人被唤醒了，认识到破坏大自然的后果。 - And yet these changes are only a pale intimation of what Heaven is preparing to do: she is to transform your reality from a limited-conscious dipolar one to a fully conscious monopolar one.
然而，这些变化只是一个什么样的天堂是准备做苍白的暗示：她是把从有限的，你的现实意识的偶极一到完全自觉单极之一。 - And why is it that as we grow older we seem to lose that joyous intimation of something beyond, something of greater significance?
那么，为什么当我们长大以后，我们好象失去了对某种超越的东西，某种更有意义的东西的那种快乐的隐隐约约的感觉？ - Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master.
雷诺奶奶听到伊丽莎白跟她主人相熟，便好象益发敬重她。