allusion

1. N-VAR An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something. 暗指

This last point was understood to be an allusion to the long-standing hostility between the two leaders. 這最後一點曾被理解爲(wèi)對這兩位領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人之間長久敵意的一種影射。