解释
- vt. 意味；暗示；隐含
※ 提供单词"imply"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
imply 暗示，暗指
im-,进入，使，-ply,编织，卷入，词源同apply,implicate.
英文词源
- 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?"
例句和用法
- 1. Cheerfulness doesn't always imply happiness.
- 快活并不总是意味着幸福.
- 2. What did she imply in her words?
- 她的话意味着什么?
- 3. What do you imply by that statement?
- 你那句话有什么含意?
- 4. Tremain's novel is altogether jauntier, more various and energetic than these quotations imply.
- 与这些引文给人的印象相比，特里曼的小说总的来说更加充满自信、富于变化，也更有活力。
- 5. Their failure to reply to our letter seems to imply a lack of interest.
- 他们没有回我们的信似乎暗示他们缺乏兴趣.
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