As is usual with the cryptic kingdom, no one really has a clue.

正如同这神秘般，没有人掌握真正的内情。

So first of all, what is an abbreviation? Well, here's a clue in the word. You have the word " brev" . " Brev" -- in other words, " brevity" -- it means to be short.

首先，" abbreviation" 缩写是什么呢? 其实，在这个拼字当中藏有线索。当中有" brev" 这个字。" Brev" 换个说法" brevity" 就是精简的意思。

He has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues available.

们必须根据现有的不充分的线索进行推理。

He didn't have a clue what was going on in the rest of the game until he heard Lee Jordan, who was commentating, say, Slytherin lead, sixty points to zero.

完全不了解赛场上的其情况，直到听见解说员李乔丹说：斯莱特林队领先，六十比零。

But what if we take away the visual clues?

但是如果我们把这些可见的提示给去掉呢？

This experiment certainly does not definitely prove that girls start to reason before boys, but it provides a clue that scientists would like to study more carefully.

这个实验当然不能肯定女婴比男婴早学会了推理，但它为科学家们更仔细地研究提供了个线索。

Tommotian and Burgess Shale formations give clues about Precambrian evolution.

早间，Tommotian和伯吉斯页岩化石群为前寒武纪进化提供了线索。

The philosopher Diderot has very aptly claimed that a man's bearing is the clue to his character, and this stocky little man was certainly a living proof of this claim.

狄德罗认为人的手势是富于譬喻的，真是说的对，现在这个短小的人正是这句活的活证据。

Fenn, who has been loath to give away additional clues-" It's all in the poem, " he would tell inquisitive hunters-has recently started sharing more details.

芬恩直都不愿泄露更多的线索-会告诉好奇的搜寻者，“线索都在诗里面”-开始分享更多细节。

There's a clue, because this is a man with a monogram.

有个线索, 因为有个字母能够揭示的身份。

Haven't a clue... have you got a spare pen by the way?

我也不懂… … 你有没有多余的笔？

Not a clue. Hard to imagine, isn’t it! Though I must say, I think he’s been having even more fun keeping the secret from me in the past few weeks.

没有线索。很难想象，不是吗？不过我必须说，这样瞒着我，过去几周肯定偷着乐呢。

And certainly not all managers have a clue how to motivate people.

当然，也并不是所有的经理都知道如何激励员工。

Globular clusters were a good clue that there was more going on.

球状星团是个很好的线索，说明还有更多的秘密等待着我们去发掘。

And I called up Bill Hewlett, cause he lived in Palo Alto, and there were no unlisted numbers in the phone book, which gives you a clue to my age.

Hewlett住在Palo Alto，13岁那年我给打了个电话，年头所有的电话号码都印在大部头里，不好意思，暴露了我的年龄。

We can glean from the clues K follows throughout the story that there is a decoy, and before the big revelation near the end we're meant to think that the decoy was a girl, and was dead.

从K掌握的线索以及故事接尾声的启示来看，我们几乎可以确定，decoy是个女孩，而且已经死了。

This episode gave Dr. Meyer her first clue to something every doctor learns sooner or later—most people just don't listen very well.

这个小插曲让麦耶医生第次意识到，很多人就是不擅长聆听，这也是每个医生迟早会意识到的个事实。

For the most part though, we have no clue what exactly they dream about.

但我们无从得知它们的梦境。

When I first started this 20 years ago, I didn't have a clue.

当我在20年前刚刚起步时，我不知道该怎么做。

As one law enforcement official put it, everything is a clue.

正如位执法官员所说，切都是个线索。