clue
clue 英 [klu:] 美 [klu]
n. 线索
进行时:cluing 过去式:clued 过去分词:clued 第三人称单数:clues 名词复数:clues
- A clue is a piece of evidence that helps solve a problem, or it's a slight hint. When you’re in the dark about the surprise party your friends are planning, they'll say, “She doesn’t have a clue!”
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- n. 线索
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1. He found a clue to the mystery.
他发现了那秘密的线索。
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2. the clue to the causes of headache.
线索关于头痛的原因
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3. You'll never guess who I saw today!’ ‘Give me a clue.’
“你绝对猜不着我今天见到谁了！”“给我提示一下吧。”
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4. I don't have a clue where she lives.
我完全不知道她住在哪里。
- clue (n.) "anything that guides or directs in an intricate case," 1590s, a special use of a revised spelling of clew "a ball of thread or yarn" (q.v.). The word, which is native Germanic, in Middle English was clewe, also cleue; some words borrowed from Old French in -ue, -eu also were spelled -ew in Middle English, such as blew, imbew, but these later were reformed to -ue, and this process was extended to native words (hue, true, clue) which had ended in a vowel and -w. The spelling clue is first attested mid-15c.
- clue (v.) "to indicate by means of a clue," 1934; "to inform someone of the important facts," usually with in, 1948, from clue (n.). Related: Clued; cluing. Earlier in now-obsolete sense of "follow or track by clues" (1660s). In nautical use, "to haul up (a sail) by means of the clue-lines," from clue (n.) in the "wound ball of yarn" sense.
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