英汉词典

clue 基本解释

• n. 线索；（故事等的）情节
• vt. 为…提供线索；为…提供情况

clue 词态变化

clue 中文词源

来自clew 的拼写变体，来自PIE*glei,黏，聚集成块，词源同clay,cling.原指球团，线团。线 索词义来自古希腊神话英雄Theseus 在迷宫中杀为非做歹的神牛的故事，因迷宫难行，克里 特公主给了Theseus 一个线团，以便他完成使命后原路返回，因此该词就有了线索之义。

clue 英文词源

clue

clue: [15] Clue is a variant spelling of the now obsolete clew ‘ball of thread’, and its current application to ‘that which helps to solve a problem’, which originated in the early 17th century, is based on the notion of using (like Theseus in the Minotaur’s labyrinth) a ball of thread to show one the way out of an intricate maze one has entered. Clew itself goes back to Old English cliwan or cleowan, which may be related to claw.
=> claw

clue (n.)

1590s, spelling variant of clew "a ball of thread or yarn," in this sense with reference to the one Theseus used as a guide out of the Labyrinth. The purely figurative sense of "that which points the way" is from 1620s. As something which a bewildered person does not have, by 1948.

clue (v.)

"to inform someone of the important facts," usually with in, 1934, from clue (n.). Related: Clued; cluing. Earlier in now-obsolete sense of "follow or track by clues" (1660s). In nautical use, "to haul up (a sail) by means of the clue-lines," from clue (n.) in the "wound ball of yarn" sense.

clue 词组搭配

clue 英文释义

1. a slight indication

2. evidence that helps to solve a problem

clue 双语例句

1. The vital clue to the killer's identity was his nickname, Peanuts.

查明杀手身份的重要线索是他的外号叫“花生”.

来自柯林斯例句

2. That was the clue which clinched it for us.

就是那个线索帮我们最终解决了问题。

来自柯林斯例句

3. I hadn't a clue to the meaning of "activism"

我根本不明白activism的意思。

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4. Diet may hold the clue to the causes of migraine.

从饮食之中可能得知偏头疼的一些原因.

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5. The police followed home the clue and finally caught the culprit.

警察根据线索追根到底,终于抓住了这个罪犯.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

clue 实用场景例句

The police think the videotape may hold some vital clues to the identity of the killer.

警方认为那盘录像带可能录有能确认凶手身份的一些重要线索。

牛津词典

Diet may hold the clue to the causes of migraine.

饮食习惯有可能揭示偏头痛的起因。

牛津词典

‘You'll never guess who I saw today! ’ ‘Give me a clue. ’

“你绝对猜不着我今天见到谁了！”“给我提示一下吧。”

牛津词典

I don't have a clue where she lives.

我完全不知道她住在哪里。

牛津词典

Don't ask him to do it─he doesn't have a clue!

这事别叫他做——他笨极了。

牛津词典

He's just clued me in on the latest developments.

他刚给我提供了最新的进展情况。

牛津词典

How a man shaves may be a telling clue to his age.

男人刮胡子的方式也许能泄露其年龄。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The vital clue to the killer's identity was his nickname, Peanuts.

查明杀手身份的重要线索是他的外号叫“花生”。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I haven't a clue what I'll give Carl for his birthday next year.

我不知道明年卡尔过生日我该送什么。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Geneticists in Canada have discovered a clue to the puzzle of why our cells get old and die...

加拿大的遗传学家已经发现了解开细胞衰老、死亡之谜的线索。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We were pretty near giving up the research as hopeless, when we came upon a clue.

在我们搜寻几乎无望时, 我们找到了线索.

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No clue to his whereabouts has been found.

至今没有找到有关他行踪的线索.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The clue could not be followed up.

案子的线儿断了.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

They claim the Olmec left a clue from across the Atlantic long before Columbus.

他们宣称欧梅克曾遗留下线索,证明哥伦布之前就有人成功越过大西洋.

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Do you have any clue about what's going wrong?

对于你的错误,你有什么线索 吗 ?

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This is a clue from a real murder case?

你认为这是一个真正的谋杀案的线索?

电影对白

His expressionless face gave me no clue as to whether he angry or not.

他脸上没有表情让我完全摸不清他是不是生气了.

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He hasn't a clue how to dance.

他不懂怎么跳舞.

辞典例句

Have not a clue.

一点儿也不知道.

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It's important clue that will break the alibi of the chief suspect.

这是一条很重要的线索,它将击破这名主犯不在犯罪现场的证据.

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The recessive clue is the relationship of the words in the text.

隐性线索则是贯穿于全文之中的语词关系.

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At first, I didn't have a clue why they would turn to me.

开始时, 我一点儿也不知道他们为何会求助于我.

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I gave him another clue, but he still didn't twig ( the answer ).

我又提示他一次, 他还是不理解 ( 那答案 ).

辞典例句

I have not a clue how to compose a waltz.

创作华尔兹曲我是一窍不通.

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The police followed home the clue and finally caught the culprit.

警察根据线索追根到底,终于抓住了这个罪犯.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

I haven't got a clue about the train schedule.

我一点都不知道这个列车时刻表.

辞典例句

Any clue about the newly built square?

知道新建的广场 吗 ?

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He stumbled across a clue.

他偶然发现一个线索.

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Her loiters afford a clue to her intentions.

对于她的意图她的信件提供了一条线索.

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Siliva: I don a clue as to what to write.

Siliva: 我没有什么的线索给我们写信.

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