Imply
[ɪm'plaɪ] or [ɪm'plai]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) express or state indirectly.
(verb.) suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic.
(verb.) have as a necessary feature; 'This decision involves many changes'.
卡洛整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To infold or involve; to wrap up.
(v. t.) To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.
(v. t.) To refer, ascribe, or attribute.
校對:罗伯特
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Involve (as a consequence), include (by implication), import, signify, mean.
校對:卢埃林
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Involve, mean, indicate, suggest, hint, import, denote, include
ANT:Express, declare, state, pronounce
克劳德特錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. (Spens.) to enfold: to include in reality to express indirectly: to mean: to signify:—pr.p. imply′ing; pa.p. implied′.—adv. Implī′edly.
手打:奥齐
例句/造句/用法:
- An idea is by its very nature weaker and fainter than an impression; but being in every other respect the same, cannot imply any very great mystery. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty-five times, to imply that it was the lady-lodger, and no other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for satisfaction than his words alone would imply. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- You don't mean to imply that she had any guilty knowledge of the crime? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Such an inference would amount to knowledge, and would imply the absolute contradiction and impossibility of conceiving any thing different. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- How can you imply that he required guarding against me? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Referring the education to her seemed to imply it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- As its name implies, it was dedicated to the service of the Muses, which was also the case with the Peripatetic school at Athens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- An interrupted appearance to the senses implies not necessarily an interruption in the existence. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The statement that a gun has a length of 45 calibers, for example, implies that the gun is forty-five times the bore’s diameter. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Positive science always implies practically the ends which the community is concerned to achieve. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But increased freedom for those who deserve it means increased responsibility; for it implies the possibility of error. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- We ignore the prospective reference just because it is so irretrievably implied. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- As implied in a previous chapter, number relations are not clearly grasped by primitive races. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It implied that what was to be done was necessarily evil, and it caused her to say in a whisper, 'O Father! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That is implied in the argument. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The error is in implying that we must adopt measures of subordination rather than of utilization to secure efficiency. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This was Sir James's strongest way of implying that he thought ill of a man's character. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The sister is pretty, said Celia, implying that she thought less favorably of Mr. Casaubon's mother. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The term species thus comes to be a mere useless abstraction, implying and assuming a separate act of creation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- With a fearful projection of the under-lip, implying an impetus of scorn the most decided, he broke out-- Je vis dans un trou! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There seemed to be no use in implying that somebody's ignorance or imprudence had killed him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I shook my head as implying a negative. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
編輯:基蒂