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单词 suggestion
释义 sug·ges·tion
\sə(g)ˈjes(h)chən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, act of suggesting, from Middle French, from Latin suggestion-, suggestio, from suggestus (past participle of suggerere to suggest) + -ion-, -io -ion
1. obsolete : incitement to evil : instigation, temptation
 < thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice — Shakespeare >
2.
 a. : the act or process of suggesting
  < a letter written at a friend's suggestion >
 b. : something suggested: as
  (1) : proposal
   < his suggestions … had the force of commands — S.H.Adams >
  (2) : intimation, hint
   < his whispered suggestion of something significant about to happen — Sherwood Anderson >
  (3) : prompting, inspiration
   < strange … that I should need a suggestion from the Iliad — Thomas De Quincey >
3. : information given without oath in a legal action : an entry on the record for the action of the court of a material fact or circumstance (as the death or insolvency of a party)
4.
 a. : the process by which one thought leads to another especially through association of ideas : the power of imaginative or artistic re-creation of experience : evocation
  < fear of the dark … seems to be entirely due to suggestion — Bertrand Russell >
  < poetry achieves its finest effects by suggestion >
  < stimulates the observer with extraordinary suggestion in his paintings — Howard Devree >
 b. : the act or process of impressing something (as an idea, attitude, or desired action) upon the mind of another
  < visual suggestion … far more powerful than the written word — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude >
  < situational factors influencing the process of suggestion — T.E.Coffin >
 c. : a means or process of influencing attitudes and behavior hypnotically
  < produced a hypnotic state very rapidly and by extremely simple suggestion — C.P.Oberndorf >
5. : a slight indication or touch : soupçon, trace
 < a suggestion of blue in the gray >
 < a sprightliness of flavor, a suggestion of the pineapple, the apricot, the orange — David Fairchild >
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