hint
英 [hɪnt]
美 [hɪnt]
- n. 暗示;线索
- vt. 暗示;示意
- vi. 示意
- n. (Hint)人名;(英)欣特;(法)安特
将“hint”与“hint hint”这个短语结合记忆,想象当你给某人一点“hint”时,就像给了他们两个提示(“hint hint”),这样可以加强记忆。
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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。
- 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.
- 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。