infer
英 [ɪnˈfɜːr]
美 [-ˈfɝː]
infer 推断,推论in-,进入,使,-fer,带来,词源同bring.即带进来的,引申词义推断,推论。
- infer (v.)
- 1520s, from Latin inferre "bring into, carry in; deduce, infer, conclude, draw an inference; bring against," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + ferre "carry, bear," from PIE *bher- (1) "to bear, to carry, to take" (cognates: Sanskrit bharati "carries;" Avestan baraiti "carries;" Old Persian barantiy "they carry;" Armenian berem "I carry;" Greek pherein "to carry;" Old Irish beru/berim "I catch, I bring forth;" Gothic bairan "to carry;" Old English and Old High German beran, Old Norse bera "barrow;" Old Church Slavonic birati "to take;" Russian brat' "to take," bremya "a burden"). Sense of "draw a conclusion" is first attested 1520s.
- 1. People usually infer an unknown fact from a known fact.
- 人们通常从已知的事实中推断未知的事实.
- 2. From this study we can reasonably infer that this behaviour is inherited.
- 根据这项研究我们可以合理地推断出这种行为是遗传的.
- 3. What do you infer from the voting figures?
- 你从选举数字中可以推出什么结论 呢 ?
- 4. From your smile I infer that you're pleased.
- 从你的笑容,我断定你很高兴.
- 5. By measuring the motion of the galaxies in a cluster, astronomers can infer the cluster's mass.
- 通过测量星系在一个星系团内的运动,天文学家们可以推定这个星系团的质量。