imply
英[?m'pla?]
美[?m'plai]
- vt. 意味；暗示；隱含
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?implies;過去式:?implied;過去分詞:?implied;現在分詞:?implying;
中文詞源
imply 暗示，暗指
im-,進入，使，-ply,編織，卷入，詞源同apply,implicate.
英文詞源
- imply
- imply: see employ
- imply (v.)
- late 14c., "to enfold, enwrap, entangle" (the classical Latin sense), from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare "involve" (see implication). Meaning "to involve something unstated as a logical consequence" first recorded c. 1400; that of "to hint at" from 1580s. Related: Implied; implying. The distinction between imply and infer is in "What do you imply by that remark?" But, "What am I to infer from that remark?"
雙語例句
- 1. Cheerfulness doesn't always imply happiness.
- 快活并不總是意味著幸福.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. What did she imply in her words?
- 她的話意味著什么?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. What do you imply by that statement?
- 你那句話有什么含意?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Tremain's novel is altogether jauntier, more various and energetic than these quotations imply.
- 與這些引文給人的印象相比，特里曼的小說總的來說更加充滿自信、富于變化，也更有活力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Their failure to reply to our letter seems to imply a lack of interest.
- 他們沒有回我們的信似乎暗示他們缺乏興趣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》