indication

英 [ˌɪndɪ'keɪʃn] 美 [ˌɪndɪ'keɪʃn]

• n. 指示；表示；迹象

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]指示,表示

   the action of indicating

2. [C]象征,迹象

   a sign or suggestion

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 指示，指点
2. 表示，表明，显示，标示
3. 迹象，征兆
4. 象征，指征
5. 暗示
6. 【矿】<美>有开采价值的迹象
7. 指示器读数
8. 指出
9. 【医】指示法
10. 适效
11. 适应症
12. 标志

英英释义

Noun:

1. something that serves to indicate or suggest;

   "an indication of foul play"
   "indications of strain"
   "symptoms are the prime indicants of disease"
   

2. the act of indicating or pointing out by name

3. (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure;

   "the presence of bacterial infection was an indication for the use of antibiotics"
   

4. something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary;

   "there were indications that it was time to leave"
   

5. a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument;

   "he could not believe the meter reading"
   "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Did they give you any indication?
   他们给你指示了吗?
2. Did he give you any indication of his feelings?
   他向你表示过他的感情吗？
3. There are some indications that the prices will rise.
   有迹象表明物价将上涨。
4. There is every indication that the price will rise.
   各种迹象表明价格将上涨。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Did he give you any indication of his feelings?
   他向你表示了自己的感情了吗?
2. There are indications that the weather will change.
   有迹象表明天气要变。
3. The study found many indications that the economy was in a recession.
   那项研究发现了经济正在衰退的许多迹象。

经典引文

• There was every indication now that the fine autumn weather..had at last come to an end.

  出自： J. B. Priestley

• A great artist whose early work gives no indication of the character of his genius.

  出自： K. Clark

• He would have liked to hear whether she was going. She gave no indication either way.

  出自： G. Huntington

• Day after day a complex of tiny indications had added up and now presented me with a picture.

  出自： W. Golding

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• give an indication 作出表示,表明
• give indication of changes 显示变化
• give sb any indication of one's feeling 向…透露感想
• show no indication of 没有…的迹象

形容词+～

• clear indication 明确的表示
• hopeful〔plain〕 indication 有希望〔显而易见〕的迹象
• the first indication 初兆

介词+～

• according to all indications 根据种种迹象

～+介词

• indication of public opinion 民意的象征
• indication of the coming of spring 春天来临的迹象

词义辨析

symptom，indication

• 这两个名词均含“征兆”之意。
• symptom通常指作为医学诊断的病征兆。
• indication普通用词，指任何情况或内容的征兆或迹象。

近反义词

【近义词】

• symptom 症状
• signal 信号
• hint 暗示
• sign 手势
• suggestion 建议
• warning 警告
• clue 线索
• evidence 证据
• omen 征兆
• glimmer 微光
• token 象征
• inkling 暗示
• intention 意图
• proof 证明
• reference 参考
• mark 记号
• meter reading 仪表读数
• indicant 指示物
• reading 阅读
• denotation 指示

【反义词】

• contraindication 〈医〉禁忌症候...