Clew

(noun.) a ball of yarn or cord or thread.

整理:萨莎

• The extreme form of this subordination, namely drudgery, offers a clew. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What was Mr. Casaubon's bias his acts will give us a clew to. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A clew may be found in the fact that the horse does not really share in the social use to which his action is put. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But you called him in to attend on Fred, and I am sure that was a mercy, said Mrs. Bulstrode, losing her clew in the intricacies of the subject. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Tantripp would never have found the clew to this mystery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• After feeling around for some days I got a clew how to do it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I mention this in this place, of a fixed purpose, because it is the clew by which I am to be followed into my poor labyrinth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He is not an inventor as much as he is a detective; he picks up the clews to certain happenings and constructs a working theory to fit them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Brooke, meanwhile, having lost other clews, fell back on himself and his qualifications--always an appropriate graceful subject for a candidate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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