- allusion (to somebody/something)
something that is said or written that refers to or mentions another person or subject in an indirect way (= alludes to it) 暗指;引喻;典故 His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。 Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusion. 她的诗随处可见晦涩的文学典故。 She was made uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to the previous night. 他对头天晚上的事闪烁其词令她感到不快。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clear
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Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a pun, metaphor, or parable): from French, or from late Latin allusio(n-), from the verb alludere, from ad- ‘towards’ + ludere ‘to play’.