inklings

英 [ˈɪŋklɪŋz]

美 [ˈɪŋklɪŋz]

n.  (对正在或即将发生的事的)略知
inkling的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 略知;模糊的概念
  If you havean inkling ofsomething, you have a vague idea about it.
  1. I had no inkling of his real purpose until much later...
     直到后来很久我才对他的真实目的略知一二。
  2. We had an inkling that something might be happening.
     我们隐约感觉可能正有什么事情发生。

双语例句

• Its characters are talking animals that think and act enough like us to emerge as personalities, while persisting sufficiently in their natural wild ways to impart inklings of natural history.
  书中的角色是会说话的动物，它们的思想和行为都像人，但又保持了它们作为动物的自然野性。
• One of the first inklings that chemistry has an underlying pattern was the discovery, early in the 19th century, of lithium, sodium and potassium-known collectively as the alkali metals.
  化学有一套内在规律；对此最早的模糊暗示之一是19世纪初锂、钠与钾（统称碱金属）的发现。
• We often have questions about the material and spiritual worlds. It is the exploration and research of these inklings that drives people to think creatively.
  我们常常对物质和精神世界产生疑问，对这种疑问的探索和研究是促使人们创造性思考的动力。
• Inklings sans ink/ cling to the dry/ point of the pen/ whose stem I mouth/ not knowing when/ the truth will out
  无墨之迹/附在干枯的/笔尖/我透露了谁的故事/不知何时/真相大白