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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they reached the wagon, Glenarvan merely mentioned to Lady Helena that there had been a railway accident, without a hint of the crime that had played so great a part in it; neither did he make mention of the presence of a band of convicts in the neighborhood, reserving that piece of information solely for Ayrton's ear.
-- John Mangles sang Mary's praises in such terms, that Harry Grant, acting on a hint from Lady Helena, put his daughter's hand into that of the brave young captain, and turning to Lord and Lady Glenarvan, said: "My Lord, and you, Madam, also give your blessing to our children."
-- And this secret of the geographer would have been forever buried in oblivion, if the Major had not mentioned it to Glenarvan, and he could not hide it from Lady Helena, who gave a hint to Mrs. Mangles.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know whether she meant it for a hint that I had come empty-handed, without a present for her birthday, or what,' added Gania, with an unpleasant smile.
-- Didn't the old woman as good as hint as much to me?'
-- Oth-ers, however, took the hint and sat down, as far as they could from the table, however; feeling braver in proportion to their distance from Nastasia.
-- There's a venomous hint for you, if you like!No, no!there's no insanity there!Of course I refuse to believe that Evgenie Pavlovitch could have known beforehand of the catastrophe; that is, that at such and such a day at seven o'clock, and all that; but he might well have had a presentiment of the truth.
-- Hadn't I better hint to him gently that he can go?'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I noted this with satisfaction, for here at least was a hint for feeding.
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：
-- But the bear, instead of obeying, maintained the seat it had taken, and growled: 'The cunning man is afraid that his breath will blow upon his brothers, and take away their courage too,' con-tinued David, improving the hint he received; 'they must stand further off.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt; I watched her eyes for some tell-tale flash, some hint of dismay or bitterness; I scanned her brow for any passing line that might indicate a settling emotion.
-- I seemed to see in them a hint of mockery; it was true that Stroeve had the head of the husband who is deceived.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to venture a hint on this point, to which the old man replied that there were few grown persons as trustworthy or as careful as she.
-- But a few whispered words from her daughter, and a kind inquiry from her son-in-law whether she felt faint, with a hint that there was abundance of cold water in the next apartment, routed these symptoms effectually, and she applied herself to the prescribed preparations with sullen diligence.
-- No word of its real use, no hint of its nightly service, no allusion to its peculiar properties, had ever passed between him and his most intimate friends.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What relates to yourself, is as follows: 'Having thus offered you the sincere congratulations of Mrs. Collins and myself on this happy event, let me now add a short hint on the subject of another; of which we have been advertised by the same authority.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.
-- This renewed a contemplation which often had come into my thoughts in former times, when first I began to see the merciful disposi-tions of Heaven, in the dangers we run through in this life; how wonderfully we are delivered when we know nothing of it; how, when we are in a quandary as we call it, a doubt or hesitation whether to go this way or that way, a secret hint shall direct us this way, when we intended to go that way: nay, when sense, our own inclination, and perhaps business has called us to go the other way, yet a strange impression upon the mind, from we know not what springs, and by we know not what power, shall overrule us to go this way; and it shall afterwards appear that had we gone that way, which we should have gone, and even to our imagination ought to have gone, we should have been ruined and lost.
-- Upon these and many like reflections I afterwards made it a certain rule with me, that whenever I found those secret hints or press-ings of mind to doing or not doing anything that presented, or going this way or that way, I never failed to obey the se-cret dictate; though I knew no other reason for it than such a pressure or such a hint hung upon my mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You may well be surprised," continued Lucy; "for to be sure you could have had no idea of it before; for I dare say he never dropped the smallest hint of it to you or any of your family; because it was always meant to be a great secret, and I am sure has been faithfully kept so by me to this hour.
-- This hint was enough, Lucy recollected herself instantly and replied, "Indeed you are very much mistaken, Lady Middleton; I am only waiting to know whether you can make your party without me, or I should have been at my filigree already.
-- She was very far from wishing to dwell on her own feelings, or to represent herself as suffering much, any otherwise than as the self-command she had practised since her first knowledge of Edward's engagement, might suggest a hint of what was practicable to Marianne.
-- I owed it to her, therefore, to avoid giving any hint of the truth; and I owed it to my family and friends, not to create in them a solicitude about me, which it could not be in my power to satisfy."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd begun to think I warn't going to get a hint of no kind to help me.
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