infer

verb

OPAL W

/ɪnˈfɜː(r)/

/ɪnˈfɜːr/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they infer	/ɪnˈfɜː(r)/ /ɪnˈfɜːr/
he / she / it infers	/ɪnˈfɜːz/ /ɪnˈfɜːrz/
past simple inferred	/ɪnˈfɜːd/ /ɪnˈfɜːrd/
past participle inferred	/ɪnˈfɜːd/ /ɪnˈfɜːrd/
-ing form inferring	/ɪnˈfɜːrɪŋ/ /ɪnˈfɜːrɪŋ/

to reach an opinion or decide that something is true on the basis of information that is available推断；推论；推理 synonym deduce
- infer something (from something) Much of the meaning must be inferred from the context.大部分含义必须从上下文中推断。
- Readers are left to infer the killer’s motives.读者可以推断凶手的动机。
- infer that… It is reasonable to infer that the government knew about these deals.有理由推想政府知悉这些交易。
- From this study we can reasonably infer that this characteristic is inherited.根据这项研究，我们可以合理地推断出这一特性是遗传的。
- It is difficult to infer anything from such evidence.根据这样的证据难以作出任何推断。
- It can be inferred from the evidence that the killer was quite a young man.从证据可以推断，凶手是个相当年轻的人。
- What can we infer about the state of mind of the writer?关于作者的心态，我们可以推断出什么？
Topics Opinion and argumentb2
Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- reasonably
- correctly
- incorrectly
- …
verb + infer
- can
- be possible to
- be difficult to
- …
preposition
- from
infer (that)… | infer something (non-standard) to suggest indirectly that something is true间接地提出；暗示；意指
- Are you inferring (that) I’m not capable of doing the job?你的言外之意是不是我不能胜任这份工作？
Which Word? infer / imply
infer / imply
- Infer and imply have opposite meanings. The two words can describe the same event, but from different points of view. If a speaker or writer implies something, they suggest it without saying it directly:infer 和 imply 意义相反，两词可能描述同一事情，但角度不同。imply 意为暗示、暗指、意味着：
  The article implied that the pilot was responsible for the accident.文章暗指飞行员应对事故负责。
  If you infer something from what a speaker or writer says, you come to the conclusion that this is what he or she means:infer 意为从…中推断、推论、推定：
  I inferred from the article that the pilot was responsible for the accident.我从这篇文章推断，飞行员应对事故负责。
- Infer is now often used in informal speech with the same meaning as imply:
  Are you inferring that I’m a liar?你是在推断我是个骗子吗？
  However, this is still considered incorrect in standard English.
Topics Suggestions and advicec2
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词源late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘bring about, inflict’): from Latin inferre ‘bring in, bring about’ (in medieval Latin ‘deduce’), from in- ‘into’ + ferre ‘bring’.