hint是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /v. 暗示, 提示，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：
-- Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'If you hear in my voice I don't know that it is so, but I hope it is if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it, weep for it!If, when I hint to you of a Home that is before us, where I will be true to you with all my duty and with all my faithful service, I bring back the remembrance of a Home long desolate, while your poor heart pined away, weep for it, weep for it!'
-- But he never says a word of the true reason of his restlessness, to her, and she finds it best not to hint at it to him.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; and I heard news of you, but not only through your wife," said Vronsky, checking his hint by a stern expression of face.
-- "No," said Kitty, blushing, but looking at him all the more boldly with her truthful eyes; "a girl may be so circumstanced that she cannot live in the family without humiliation, while she herself..." At the hint he understood her.
-- When Countess Nordston ventured to hint that she had hoped for something better, Kitty was so angry and proved so conclusively that nothing in the world could be better than Levin, that Countess Nordston had to admit it, and in Kitty's presence never met Levin without a smile of ecstatic admiration.
-- It flattered his vanity that such a learned man should explain his ideas to him so eagerly, with such intensity and confidence in Levin's understanding of the subject, sometimes with a mere hint referring him to a whole aspect of the subject.
-- "Oh, by the way," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, "I wanted to ask you, some time when you see Pomorsky, to drop him a hint that I should be very glad to get that new appointment of secretary of the committee of the amalgamated agency of the southern railways and banking companies."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he lifted his head to listen, his right eyebrow, slightly higher than the left, rose and quivered in his characteristic expression of energy, of independence, and a hint that he could fight, a look of impertinent inquiry which had been known to annoy his teachers and the Sunday School superintendent.
-- He looked up, spoke with a hint of German accent.
-- But this second volume of my clippings may perhaps interest you, just as a hint of what a fellow can do."
-- Any questioning of his fluent figures about tuberculosis, any hint that the cause of decline in the disease may have been natural growth of immunity and not the crusades against spitting and stale air, Pickerbaugh regarded as a criticism of his honesty in making such crusades.
-- Everybody says, 'Oh, you mustn't tamper with the truth,' and everybody is furious if you hint that they themselves are tampering with it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave Zametov a bit of a thrashing at the time that's between ourselves, brother; please don't let out a hint that you know of it; I've noticed he is a ticklish subject; it was at Luise Ivanovna's.
-- 'All that is not in the article, there's only a hint of it,' said Raskolnikov.
-- Of course the merest hint only an insinuation but why an insinu-ation even?
-- She had proposed to make this clear to them at dinner with allusions to her late father's governorship, and also at the same time to hint that it was exceedingly stupid of them to turn away on meeting her.
-- You hint at a crime committed, you say, by my brother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not, anddo not, suppose that this neckerchief was all the linen he wore, butit was all he showed or gave any hint of.
-- trustedD.C. was applying himself to business, and devoting himselfwholly to his duties- not the least hint of my ever being anythingelse than the common drudge into which I was fast settling down.
-- At this dreadful hint Mrs. Micawber threw her armsround Mr. Micawber's neck and entreated him to be calm.
-- Mrs. Crupp broke out intorebellion on my first bashful hint in reference to the cooking of thefish and joint, and said, with a dignified sense of injury, 'No!No,sir!You will not ask me sich a thing, for you are better acquaintedwith me than to suppose me capable of doing what I cannot dowith ampial satisfaction to my own feelings!'
-- I thoughtit my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain, fromliving in a continual state of guerilla warfare with Mrs. Crupp; butshe disposed of that objection summarily by declaring, that, on thefirst demonstration of hostilities, she was prepared to astonish Mrs.Crupp for the whole remainder of her natural life.
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