take a hint

基本解釋

The client should be smart enough to take a hint.
客戶應(yīng)該是聰明人。
Secondly, like some women, some men can't take a hint.
其次，像某些女人一樣，有些男人是搞不明白這種暗示的。
When I failed to answer the second, then the third and fourth such request, couldn't you take a hint?
我沒(méi)能廻複第二封郵件請(qǐng)求，然後第三封和第四封請(qǐng)求郵件就接踵而至，你們就不理解沉默的含意嗎？

And one way people do this is they take a hint from nature and they try to construct massively distributed networks to do aspects of reasoning.
進(jìn)行研究的方法之一便是,研究者們從自然界獲得啓示,然後試圖建立起廣泛分佈的網(wǎng)絡(luò),來(lái)進(jìn)行不同的推理
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It was no accident that President George W. Bush 's Tokyo itinerary this week included a photo op at the Meiji shrine, which is dedicated to one Japanese leader who really knew how to take a hint from a visiting American.
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