infer
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ɪnˈfɜ:(r)]
- 美式音标 [-ˈfɝː]
- 国际音标 [in'fə:]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vt.推断;猜测;暗示
- vi.作出推论
词源解说
- 16世纪20年代进入英语,直接源自古典拉丁语的inferre,意为使产生,引起;最初源自该语的inferre:in (在……里) + ferre (传送,显示),意为由……显示出。
词根记忆
- in(进入) + fer(带来)→带进意义→推断,推论
用法辨析
- infer的基本意思是“推断,推知”,多指读者、听者或旁观者在所见所闻的事物中推论出某事的内涵。引申则表示“意味着”。
- infer可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时可接名词或从句作宾语。
- infer宾语后接介词from表示“从…推断出”,宾语是从句时, from短语可以提前。
- infer的过去式、过去分词均为inferred。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- Men observe and infer in all sorts of ways.
人们通过各个途径进行观察和推断。 - We see smoke and infer fire.
我们看到烟,从而推断有火。 - I infer that he'll be home for dinner.
我推测他会回家吃饭。 - We had to infer what she meant.
我们不得不推测她的话是什么意思。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+that-clause
S+~+wh-clause
词组短语
- infer a conclusion 推断出结论
- infer carelessly 草草地推断
- infer certainly 断定
- infer confidently 有把握地推断
- infer hastily 匆匆地推断
- infer unreasonably 不合理地推断
- infer from 推断;从推断;从…推断出
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
~+副词
~+介词
英英字典
- to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have
- If you infer that something is the case, you decide that it is true on the basis of information that you already have.
- Some people use infer to mean "imply," but this use is incorrect. (infer)(imply)
剑桥英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 推理
The recognition is to? infer self- organizationally using those associations.
识别是一个反复自组织的推理过程。法学
- 推定
As for the difficulty in proving the actor's fault for the owners of intellectual property,can be solved with the fault infer in the law.
至于知识产权人难以证明侵害人过错的问题,可以通过法律上的过错推定加以解决。数学
- 推断