inkling 的定义
- a slight suggestion or indication; hint; intimation: They hadn't given us an inkling of what was going to happen.
- a vague idea or notion; slight understanding: They didn't have an inkling of how the new invention worked.
inkling 近义词
idea, clue
更多inkling例句
- So, most of my research always comes from inklings that the conventional wisdom might be wrong.
- This was before we had any inkling that a pandemic was about to shake us all down to our foundations.
- It’s an inkling of the promise of cinema, and also the limitations of cinema.
- Unsatisfied with the world she knew, Keller was tormented by her inkling that there was much more to know, and she extended this torment to the people around her.
- While most had an inkling that some of their audience already gambles on sports — and more are betting-curious — the publishers are all in a race to try and figure out how to entertain, serve and grow that audience.
- Based on the way they sprang into action on Friday, his family had more than an inkling of what might be ahead.
- I took the elevator up to the second floor without any inkling of what was about to happen.
- Did he figure out all at once that Walt was Heisenberg, or do you think that he had an inkling earlier?
- Perhaps that should have been the first inkling that this might not be a totally kosher idea.
- Her testimony was necessarily brief, as she had never met Valle, or had any inkling that he was stalking her.
- To suppose, as many do, that no inkling of all the stupendous schemes reached Napoleon in Spain is preposterous.
- The bourgeois conscience of the West has no inkling of what it means.
- I got my first inkling of what intervalness instead of numberness really meant.
- Why did you leave London secretly, without giving your friends or your mother any inkling of your plans?
- Then catching an inkling of Franz's scheme, he hit the man a quick, hard blow in the mouth with his clenched fist.