inkling
inkling 英 [ˈɪŋklɪŋ] 美 [ˈɪŋklɪŋ]
n. 暗示；略知；模糊概念 v. 暗示 （inkle的ing形式）；略知；低声说出
名词复数:inklings
- Is someone yapping on and on and you only have the vaguest idea of what they're talking about? Then you understood just an inkling — a glimmer, a fraction — of what they were saying.
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- n. 暗示；略知；模糊概念
- v. 暗示 （inkle的ing形式）；略知；低声说出
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1. He had by now an inkling of the factors involved.
他总算对涉及到的各种因素略知一二了。
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2. A story will furnish, not the full answer, but an inkling of it. A man had a dog.
在这讲一个故事，尽管不能提供全部的答案但它可以给我们一些提示。
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3. People in China expect no leniency, justice or even rationality from other people with even the slightest inkling of power.
在中国，不要期望从宽处理、公正、甚至或者是在一丁点权利面前其他人的理性对待。
- inkling (n.) c. 1400, apparently from the gerund of the Middle English verb inclen "utter in an undertone, hint at, hint" (mid-14c.), which is of unknown origin; perhaps it is related to Old English inca "doubt, suspicion, question, scruple." However the earliest record of the word is as a nyngkiling; and Middle English Dictionary offers that this is not a misdivision of an inkling but rather suggests the word is a nasalized variant of nikking "a hint, slight indication," gerundive of the Middle English verb nikken "to mark (a text) for correction" (mid-15c.), from nik (n.) "a notch, tally" (see nick (n.)).
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