take a hint

基本解释

The client should be smart enough to take a hint.
客户应该是聪明人。
Secondly, like some women, some men can't take a hint.
其次，像某些女人一样，有些男人是搞不明白这种暗示的。
When I failed to answer the second, then the third and fourth such request, couldn't you take a hint?
我没能回复第二封邮件请求，然后第三封和第四封请求邮件就接踵而至，你们就不理解沉默的含意吗？

And one way people do this is they take a hint from nature and they try to construct massively distributed networks to do aspects of reasoning.
进行研究的方法之一便是,研究者们从自然界获得启示,然后试图建立起广泛分布的网络,来进行不同的推理
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