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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your views for Harriet are best known to yourself; but as you make no se-cret of your love of match-making, it is fair to suppose that views, and plans, and projects you have; and as a friend I shall just hint to you that if Elton is the man, I think it will be all labour in vain.'
-- Miss Nash, head-teacher at Mrs. Goddard's, had written out at least three hundred; and Har-riet, who had taken the first hint of it from her, hoped, with Miss Woodhouse's help, to get a great many more.
-- She had had many a hint from Mr. Knightley and some from her own heart, as to her deficiency but none were equal to counteract the persuasion of its being very disagreeable, a waste of time tiresome women and all the horror of being in danger of falling in with the second-rate and third-rate of Highbury, who were calling on them 186 Emmafor ever, and therefore she seldom went near them.
-- Well, now I have just given you a hint of what Jane writes about, we will turn to her letter, and I am sure she tells her own story a great deal better than I can tell it for her.'
-- Mr. Cole gave me a hint of it six weeks ago.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They then said I had better just name a hint of her death to you, and away they went.
-- Not for worlds now could she give a hint about her misery to him, much less ask him plainly for information on the cause of Fanny's death.
-- Laban Tall named a hint of it to me but now but I don't think it.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am very glad to see you," she said, but there was something in her manner that a shrewd observer would have taken as a hint to depart.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, look, youimpudent black fool, if you put on any airs in front of the Wynder darkies and hint that we all the time have friedchicken and ham, while they don't have nothing but rabbit and possum, I'll I'll tell Ma.
-- Mammyfelt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery wasenough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.
-- Already summer was in the air, the first hint of Georgia summer when the high tide of spring gives wayreluctantly before a fiercer heat.
-- Here she sat like a crow with hot black taffeta to her wrists and buttoned up to her chin, with not even a hint oflace or braid, not a jewel except Ellen's onyx mourning brooch, watching tacky-looking girls hanging on the arms ofgood-looking men.
-- "I'd like to learn it," replied his companion, a hint of buried laughter in his flat drawling voice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He never smoked so late, and it seemed to hint to me that he wanted comforting, for some reason or other.
-- I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong.
-- On this hint we all rose to depart.
-- When we got back, he had the hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honor, and to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death.
-- The morning hurry and flutter had been great; for, long and anxiously as I had waited for Wemmick, his hint had come like a surprise at last.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several others declared their sentiments to the same purpose, when my master proposed an expedient to the assembly, whereof he had indeed borrowed the hint from me.
-- I conjured him 'to conceal from all persons what I had told him of the Houyhnhnms; because the least hint of such a story would not only draw numbers of people to see me, but probably put me in danger of being imprisoned, or burnt by the Inquisition.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I say, Loo!I thought I'd come, and just hint to you what was going on: though I supposed you'd most likely guess, even if you didn't know.
-- May I hint at the probability of your sometimes supplying him with money for these purposes?'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Bolton made hint aware only of outside things.
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