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单词 intimation
释义
intimation
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˌɪn.tɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.t̬əˈmeɪ.ʃən/
theactionof makingclearwhat youthinkorwantwithout saying itdirectly, or something that makes somethingclearin this way:
暗示
Hissuicideattemptwas the first intimationthathe wasseriouslydepressed.他尝试过自杀是他严重抑郁的第一个征兆。
The book'stitlegives afairenough intimation ofitssubject.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
More examples
  • There was no intimation ofdanger.
  • Sheleftme without theslightestintimation of who myfatherwas.
  • Deatharound us can give us intimations ofourownmortality.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Suggestions & proposals
  • about
  • bouncesomethingoffsomeone
  • can't
  • co-sponsor
  • co-sponsorship
  • drop
  • imply
  • intimate
  • make noisesidiom
  • maybe
  • move
  • nomination
  • on the tableidiom
  • proposition
  • putsomeonetosomethingidiom
  • putsomethingup
  • resubmission
  • resubmit
  • table
  • thought
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(Definition ofintimationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofintimation

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These projects which became rightly famous convey, today still, anintimationof liberating, buoyant creation, bubbling up from within the deep sea of historicism.
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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.
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Intimations of a beyond or transcendent triggered by music, for instance, are intimations that there is a beyond or transcendent.
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But we might receive these new accounts as reasonable confirmation of our priorintimationof something undisclosed.
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Dreams are anintimationof what space is like.
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Not just anintimationof potential political change, this passage declares the revolution at hand.
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Rather than an isolated instance of revolutionary zeal, thisintimationof insurgency appears throughout the book.
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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.
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The intimations of higher development among the subordinate animal species, however, can be understood only after the higher development is already known.
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There are hints as to which of the ' molecules of life ' came first and intimations of a different genetic system in our ancestry.
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There have been earlier intimations that the future might see the decline of mankind, if not of life on earth in general.
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Or is it that theintimationof mortality induced by ill-health was a creative spur from the outset?
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Again, desires, intuitions, and intimations are propositional attitudes although the propositions they take as objects are often vague and imprecise.
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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.
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Still, intimations can be found.
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