hinting

What on earth are you hinting at?

你到底在暗示什么?

I can't figure out what he was hinting at.

我想不出他在暗示什么。

Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.

有两三个严肃而沉静的人却摇摇头，走出了旅店，暗示尔斯·戈斯林，要是他想生意继续兴隆，就该趁早打发这个奢侈无度、不敬上帝的外甥再到外面去漂泊。