| 单词 | suggest |
| 释义 | sug·gest transitive verb 1. a. obsolete (1) < two spirits do suggest me still — Shakespeare > (2) < what serpent hath suggested thee — Shakespeare > b. < indirectly suggest the desired attitude — Dorothy Barclay > < the pleasant voice that enticed and suggested the most improbable falsehoods from witnesses — Rose Macaulay > c. < suggest that a change of government is necessary > < suggest strongly … that he bring his wife along for the interview — W.H.Whyte > d. < suggest a stroll after lunch > < suggested several thesis subjects > < suggested … a special committee to work on plans for a possible settlement — New Republic > e. < this, I suggest, is what happened > < suggested the conception of poetry as a living whole — T.S.Eliot > < suggests other reasons why music is powerful in the building … of personality — H.A.Overstreet > 2. a. < the explosion … suggested sabotage — F.L.Paxson > < the scientist suggests an ant, putting forth great efforts to lug one … apparently unimportant grain of sand — Oliver La Farge > < a setting which is brilliantly suggested — Times Literary Supplement > < the folk customs that suggest themselves for study — Phyllis Greenacre > b. < a short story suggested by an actual incident > < television may suggest new forms and expression — Leslie Rees > < this incident suggests significant reflections — M.R.Cohen > < physical comfort … suggests that students shall occupy alternate seats — College of William & Mary Cat. > 3. < open gambling that suggested collusion with public officials > < his impulsive gestures suggested a passion he had never shown to her — Morley Callaghan > < admirable works, yet they suggested … aloofness from the sordid realities — V.L.Parrington > intransitive verb 1. obsolete < devils … do suggest at first with heavenly shows — Shakespeare > 2. Synonyms: < the business of words in prose is primarily to state; in poetry, not only to state, but also (and sometimes primarily) to suggest — J.L.Lowes > < a steamer on the Thames or lines of telegraph inevitably suggest the benefits of civilization, man's triumph over Nature — L.P.Smith > imply is close to suggest in denotation and connotation; it differs in seeming to require more analytical or systematic inference to grasp the implied meaning < had always implied that there had been something irregular in Dr. Winter's accounts — Edith Wharton > < an era when the scientific point of view no longer implies this determinism — Edmund Wilson > hint refers to communication by slight, indirect, or covert suggestion, with a minimum of straightforward implicit expression < as thou with wary speech … hast hinted — John Keats > < repeatedly hinted at in political thought — Alex Comfort > intimate may stress delicacy as contrasted with blunt forthrightness in expression < intimated that there had been danger in his coming just then — Arnold Bennett > < “I never put it so strong as that,” said the old lady, looking rather shocked. She had intimated as much many times — Archibald Marshall > insinuate often indicates covert indirect reference artfully introduced and usually calculated to depreciate or denigrate < the insinuated scoff of coward tongues — William Wordsworth > < the voice that insinuates that Jews and Negroes and Catholics are inferior excrescences on our body politic — Max Lerner > |
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