单词 | suggestion |
释义 | sug·ges·tion 1. obsolete < thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice — Shakespeare > 2. a. < a letter written at a friend's suggestion > b. (1) < his suggestions … had the force of commands — S.H.Adams > (2) < his whispered suggestion of something significant about to happen — Sherwood Anderson > (3) < strange … that I should need a suggestion from the Iliad — Thomas De Quincey > 3. 4. a. < 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. < visual suggestion … far more powerful than the written word — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < situational factors influencing the process of suggestion — T.E.Coffin > c. < produced a hypnotic state very rapidly and by extremely simple suggestion — C.P.Oberndorf > 5. < 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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