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单词 allude
释义
alludeal‧lude /əˈluːd/ ●○○ verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINallude
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin alludere, from ad- ‘with’ + ludere ‘to play’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
allude
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyallude
he, she, italludes
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyalluded
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave alluded
he, she, ithas alluded
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad alluded
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill allude
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have alluded
Continuous Form
PresentIam alluding
he, she, itis alluding
you, we, theyare alluding
PastI, he, she, itwas alluding
you, we, theywere alluding
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been alluding
he, she, ithas been alluding
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been alluding
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be alluding
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been alluding
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Afterwards Lewis wished he had said something scathing, alluding perhaps to the lateness of the hour or Adam's appearance.
  • Besides, it struck him as a little absurd to allude to the matter.
  • I do not now allude to preference though of course that comes first.
  • This building serves as a point of reference, alluding in its monumentality to the idea of art as drama.
  • Two further programmes alluding to the resignation, due to be aired on Jan. 4 and 11, had also been blocked.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto mention someone or something
to say something about a person, plan, event etc, especially during a conversation, without giving any details or saying very much: · When you were talking to Barbara, did she mention her mother at all?· We didn't really discuss the price, but somebody mentioned a figure of £300.mention (that): · Eve mentioned that you might be looking for a temporary job.mention something to somebody: · She had started having nose bleeds, but when she mentioned this to her doctor, he told her not to worry.worth mentioning: · "Why didn't you tell me?" "It didn't seem worth mentioning."now (that) you mention it (=used to agree when someone has introduced a new subject): · Now that you mention it, I did think she was behaving a little strangely last night.mention something in passing (=mention something quickly, without spending much time on it): · Then he remembered that Liz had mentioned in passing that her father was a lawyer.
to say something about a person, plan, event etc in a conversation, speech, or piece of writing: · Although she didn't mention any names, everyone knew who she was referring to.· I apologized, and the matter was never referred to again.· I think what Mary was referring to earlier was her manager's inability to make the right decision.
formal to mention someone or something in a deliberately indirect way: · She has often alluded to a secret tragedy in her past.· When the director spoke of "major problems", I assumed that he was alluding to mechanical failures in the computer system.
to mention a subject or a fact during a speech, a lesson, a piece of writing etc, but without spending much time on it: · In my last lecture I touched on a number of important issues which I am now going to examine in some detail.
informal to mention something that is not closely connected with what you are saying, or that it is not necessary to mention: throw in something/throw something in : · He likes to throw in references to his days in the army.
the practice of mentioning the names of famous or important people that you know or meet, in order to impress other people: · I hate the namedropping that is a feature of most autobiographies.
allude to somebody/something phrasal verb formal to mention something or someone indirectly:  Rick didn’t want to discuss his past, though he alluded darkly to ‘some bad things that happened.’
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