intimation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 亲密， 熟悉，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still she had a strange prescience, an intimation of something yet to come.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The instant the father seconded this intimation by an ex-pressive gesture of the hand, Uncas threw himself on the ground, and approached the animal with wary movements.
-- With the first intimation that it was within their reach, the whole band sprang upon their feet as one man; giving utterance to their rage in the most frantic cries, they rushed upon their prisoners in a body with drawn knives and uplifted tom-ahawks.
-- When Duncan and David, therefore, found themselves in the center of the children, who played the antics already mentioned, it was without the least previous intimation of their approach.
-- Runners were despatched for intelligence in different directions; spies were ordered to approach and feel the en-campment of the Delawares; the warriors were dismissed to their lodges, with an intimation that their services would soon be needed; and the women and children were ordered to retire, with a warning that it was their province to be si-lent.
-- The words were few and often repeated, proceeding gradually from a sort of invocation, or hymn, to the Deity, to an intimation of the warrior's object, and terminating as they commenced with an acknowledgment of his own dependence on the Great Spirit.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The letter from Dr. Stokes was not his only intimation that plague was striding through St. Hubert, that tomorrow it might be leaping to Barbados, to the Virgin Islands .
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Itwas not long after thatnot more than two or three days- when he 344gave me the first intimation of what I tell you.
-- It ran thus-'My Dear Copperfield, 'You may possibly not be unprepared toreceive the intimation that something has turned up.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She longed for the serenity they might gradually intro-duce; and on Mr. Perry's coming in soon after dinner, with a disengaged hour to give her father, she lost no time ill hur-rying into the shrubbery. There, with spirits freshened, and thoughts a little relieved, she had taken a few turns, when she saw Mr. Knightley passing through the garden door, and coming towards her. It was the first intimation of his being returned from London.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was here that I was destined, at a later date, to have a very strange experience the first intimation of a still stranger discovery but of that I will speak in its proper place.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Receiving this as an intimation that it was best not to delay, I settled that I would go to-morrow, and said so.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With such pacific and bantering remarks did Mr Brass refute the foul aspersion on his character; but the virtuous Sarah, moved by stronger feelings, and having at heart, perhaps, a more jealous regard for the honour of her family, flew from her brother's side, without any previous intimation of her design, and darted at the prisoner with the utmost fury.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me VIS A VIS the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was, as usual, a cessation of the small-talk in the Lodge as she passed through it; and a Collegian who had come in on Saturday night, received the intimation from the elbow of a more seasoned Collegian, 'Look out.
-- This was the first intimation he had ever given, that he was privy to the fact that they did something for a livelihood.
-- ' which was addressed to a couple of men who were handing the dishes round, as a courteous intimation that their services could be temporarily dispensed with.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stone by which he was seated, bore, in large characters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London.
-- If so, let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey, or he would not be invited to proceed upon such an expedition.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Reynolds respect for Elizabeth seemed to increase on this intimation of her knowing her master.
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