allusive
/uh-loo-siv/US // əˈlu sɪv //UK // (əˈluːsɪv) //
暗示性的,暗示性,寓意深刻,寓意深刻的
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adj.形容词 adjective
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- : having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- : Obsolete. metaphorical; symbolic; figurative.
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The term is appropriately open-ended, since the participants devise pieces that are minimalist and mysteriously allusive.
This is about as explicit as 1Q84 ever gets, and even here the sense of things is allusive.
The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive.
He was genial and jocose, sunburnt and romantically allusive.
Immersed in a subject with which they were all familiar, they were allusive, elliptic, and persistently technical.
Of course, they are not ready for the indirect and allusive manner, nor for the lyric egoism, of the pure literary essay.
Of course letters enable you to evade some of the difficulties of the novelist's task, to be discursive, allusive and incomplete.
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