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 Present I, you, we, they allude he, she, it alludes Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they alluded Present perfect I, you, we, they have alluded he, she, it has alluded Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had alluded Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will allude Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have alluded Continuous Form Present I am alluding he, she, it is alluding you, we, they are alluding Past I, he, she, it was alluding you, we, they were alluding Present perfect I, you, we, they have been alluding he, she, it has been alluding Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been alluding Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be alluding Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will 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► mention 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. ► refer to 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. ► allude to 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. ► touch on 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. ► throw in 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. ► namedropping 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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