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发音：[əˈlusɪv]
例句：
- The word allusive refers to something that contains indirect references or allusions to something else, typically a person, event, or literary work. It describes the use of subtle hints or suggestions to evoke or bring to mind certain ideas or associations without explicitly stating them.
- Compared with previous works, “Echo 3” is more allusive about regional tensions, shifting much of the intrigue to the complex interpersonal dynamics and shared histories of its protagonists.
- Some scholars have compared “Macunaíma” to James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” another symbolic modernist novel from the 1920s whose allusive, wide-ranging play with language is as central to its identity as its plot.
- Both poets used enigmatic, allusive imagery and are considered part of the Symbolist movement, influencing artists from Debussy to Picasso to Bob Dylan.
解释：
- Allusive这个单词做形容词使用，其表示“indirectly suggesting something”这一含义，即“间接提到的/暗指的/影射的/引喻的”，与indirect/indicative/reflective这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Nobody ever tackled “Jeopardy!” because experts assumed that even for the latest artificial intelligence, the game was simply too hard: the clues are too puzzling and allusive, and the breadth of trivia is too wide.（从来没有人处理过“危险！”，因为专家认为，即使是最新的人工智能，游戏也太难了：线索太令人费解和隐喻，琐事的广度太广。）
–Technology - Many great symbolic masterworks arose as a result of the Code—such directors as Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and Berkeley himself managed to express the inexpressible with allusive and ironic ingenuity.（许多伟大的象征性杰作都是由于守则而出现的——霍华德·霍克斯、恩斯特·卢比奇和伯克利本人等导演都设法用暗示和讽刺的独创性来表达无法表达的东西。）
–Arts - Apart from its comedic delights, this playfully allusive novel, with its echoes of Joyce and Homer, offers eloquent meditations on family and the fracturing of identity.（除了喜剧的乐趣之外，这部俏皮的影射小说，与乔伊斯和荷马的呼应，提供了对家庭和身份分裂的强有力沉思。）
–Arts - The third book, after a short and offensively allusive description of the labours of preceding poets, sketches the twelve accidents of human life, to each of which is assigned its special guardian influence.（第三本书在对前几位诗人的劳动进行了简短而令人反感的暗示之后，勾勒了人类生活中的十二个事件，每个事件都被赋予了特殊的守护者影响。）
–Arts
