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：
-- The new Achilles in hint had a heel, and in this heel the woman, the woman like Connie, his wife, could lame him fatally.
-- And though it was the Signora who paid him and gave him orders, he rather hoped it would be the young mi-lady who would select hint for L'AMORE.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether you ever observed anything in his conduct suggesting that; or ever spoke to him upon it, or ever heard him hint at such a thing?'
-- The patriarchal Mr Casby then rose with the air of having done it himself, and blandly followed: leaving his daughter, as she followed in her turn, to remark to her former lover in a distracted whisper (which she very much enjoyed), that they had drained the cup of life to the dregs; and further to hint mysteriously that the late Mr F. was at the bottom of it.
-- 'I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle it was not ecstasy but it was comfort, I returned to papa's roof and lived secluded if not happy during some years until one day papa came smoothly blundering in and said that Arthur Clennam awaited me below, I went below and found him ask me not what I found him except that he was still unmarried still unchanged!'
-- No one, after that exemplary demolition of him, would have the hardihood to hint that the more the Circumlocution Office did, the less was done, and that the greatest blessing it could confer on an unhappy public would be to do nothing.
-- When there was any little hint of anything being in the wind, he got lost directly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She loved music so dearly, tried so hard to learn, and practiced away so patiently at the jin-gling old instrument, that it did seem as if someone (not to hint Aunt March) ought to help her.
-- Meg thought it was too cruel to hint about her sad failure, and the last atom of patience vanished as he spoke.
-- No hint of this had reached the culprits, however, and Amy's dismay can be imagined, when, the very evening before the fair, as she was putting the last touches to her pretty table, Mrs. Chester, who, of course, resented the supposed ridicule of her daughter, said, in a bland tone, but with a cold look... 'I find, dear, that there is some feeling among the young ladies about my giving this table to anyone but my girls.
-- As few brothers are complimented by having their letters carried about in their sister's pockets, read and reread diligently, cried over when short, kissed when long, and treasured carefully, we will not hint that Amy did any of these fond and foolish things.
-- I felt sure then that something better than what you call the 'mercenary spirit' had come over her, and a hint here and there in her letters made me suspect that love and Laurie would win the day.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.
-- Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk.
-- I have given thee a hint about what whaling is; do ye yet feel inclined for it?"
-- Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.
-- It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took the hint at once, for the fist had been too often impressed upon his body not to be deeply impressed upon his recollection.
-- As I purpose to show in the sequel whether the white waistcoated gentleman was right or not, I should perhaps mar the interest of this narrative (supposing it to possess any at all), if I ventured to hint just yet, whether the life of Oliver Twist had this violent termination or no.
-- The Jew saw that it would be hopeless to affect any further mistake regarding the reality of Miss Nancy's rage; and, shrinking involuntarily back a few paces, cast a glance, half imploring and half cowardly, at Sikes: as if to hint that he was the fittest person to pursue the dialogue.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Is this a hint to me, Lizzy,' said her father, 'to send for the horses?'
-- Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her prog-ress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.
-- She resolved to give her the information herself, and therefore charged Mr. Col-lins, when he returned to Longbourn to dinner, to drop no hint of what had passed before any of the family.
-- She had not been many hours at home before she found that the Brighton scheme, of which Lydia had given them a hint at the inn, was under frequent discussion between her parents.
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