allusive，implicit，[医] suggestive，implied，insinuating ；

[例句] 轮到你唱的时候,演播室经理会向你发出暗示的. The studio manager will cue you in when it's your turn to sing.

[例句] 到你开始的时候她会给你暗示的. She'll give you the cue when you're to start.

insinuation，hint at，（给以得出某种有关推论的理由） infer，allude ；

[例句] 该题目可能暗指艾滋病。 The title is per-haps an allusion to AIDS.

[例句] 他们暗指他是诚实的. They implied him to be honest.

a concealed analogy，metaphor （一种修辞手段，如夜幕 the curtain of night） ；

[例句] 这喑喻不但是双重, 更是四重暗喻! It was not just double meaning , but quadruple meaning!

[例句] 我认为这个暗喻接近事实但还不太正确. I think the metaphor is close but not quite correct.

见“暗室”[àn shì]；

[例句] 和职业照相室合用一间暗房是做不出什么好成绩来的. The joint use of professional photographic laboratories rarely works out well.

[例句] 家庭式的暗房特别方便. A homemade dark room is very convenient.

quiet，secret，[法] clandestine，stealthy，backroom ；

[例句] 5公开的责备强如暗中的爱. Open rebuke is better Than love that is hidden.

[例句] 莫仑霍和他自己就是暗中的敌手. Mollenhauer and himself were silent rivals.

closed conduit，conduit，kanat，culvert，underdrain ；

[例句] 它由竖井 、 暗渠 、 明渠和涝坝 ( 一种小型蓄水池 ) 四部分组成. It consists of shafts, culverts , channel and flood dam ( a small reservoir ) composed of four parts.

[例句] 由于工程老化,年久失修,北墅水库输水暗渠墙体多处发生位移破坏,严重影响工程的正常使用. In Beishu Reservoir, the displacement destruction appears at underground conveyance canal because of ageing without repair.

obmub，lation，blind ；

[例句] 云遮暗了天. Clouds blacken the heavens.

[例句] 乌云遮暗了天空. The sky is darkened with clouds.

deepening，darken，darkle ；

[例句] 拉下窗帘使房间的光线变暗了. Pulling down the window shades subdued the light in the room.

[例句] 为什么起动电冰箱的电动机时,会使室内的灯光变暗? Why does starting a refrigerator motor cause the house lights to dim?

insinuate，innuendo，insinuation ；

[例句] 有人暗讽哈利的失败,使他受到伤害. Harry was hurt by an allusion to his failure.

[例句] 马克暗讽地说敌队会在比赛中输掉. Mark told by innuendo that the opposing team would lose the game.

[法] hidden ；

[例句] 多年来, 原来被他克制着的、暗藏的愤恨终于揭开了. The long repulse , at first restrained and secret, was at last opened.

[例句] 这就是野马的特征:它们总是十分小心,不时地看看四周是否有什么暗藏的危险. It was mark of the wild, always looking for hidden danger.

melanic，melanocratic ；

[例句] 她那暗色的嘴微微启开,露出洁白的小牙齿. Her dusky mouth was parted slightly to show tiny white teeth.

[例句] 船又静悄悄地向陆地蠕动, 船后留下长长一道暗色的浪迹. The ship crept in towards the land, silently, leaving a long dark track behind her.

dimly，dimness，duskiness，dusk ；

[例句] 我喜欢见什么也不做的无所事事的微暗的男人. I like to see dusky men sitting about doing nothing.

[例句] 少数的团体更微暗. A few of the groups are more obscure.

dingy，shadowy ；

[例句] 他领着路,走过暗黑的 、 堆着一行一行盒子的甬道. He led the way through dark, box - lined aisles.

[例句] 这朵郁金香不和其他普通的郁金香一样, 它隐藏了暗黑的秘密. This tulip wasn't like other tulips, it hid a dark secret.

dark，dismal，murk ；

[例句] 在越来越暗的情况下,什么东西都看不清. In the gathering gloom it was difficult to see anything distinctly.

[例句] 她的脸部在一片很暗的阴影中. Her face was in deep shadow.

obfuscation ；

[例句] 他的眼陷下去,连脸上那块疤都有些发暗. His eyes became sunken and even the scar on his face darkened.

[例句] 事实上深到发暗就不吸引人了. In fact, so deep that the color is dull and unattractive.

subduing ；

[例句] 不利的储藏条件常导致油脂的酸值和过氧化值升高, 油色变暗. As the application of the transgenic technology , oil content of rapeseed is increasing more and inure.

[例句] 生长速度和活力下降. 叶色变暗. 抗旱能力下降. Reduction in growth rate and vigour. Darkening of the leaves. Decreased drought resistance.

[医]dull ；

[例句] 几束隐约的阳光使阴暗的下午有些明亮. A few faint gleams of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.

[例句] 有几束隐约的阳光使阴暗的下午有些明亮. A few faints gleam of sunshine lit up the gloomy afternoon.

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[例句] “是啊。”我语带暗示地说：“我听说她是个非常友善的女孩。” "Yes." My tone was insinuating. "I heard she was a real friendly girl."

[例句] 像父母对小孩说话一样,他暗示地伸出了食指. He raised his forefinger indicatively, as parents do to children.

dull coal，durain，attritus ；

blind pit，blind shaft，boustay，dummy shaft ；