infer v. 推断;推理出;从已知信息中得出结论。(常用于“从证据/线索中推断”)
/ɪnˈfɝː/
We can infer his age from the photo.
我们可以从这张照片推断出他的年龄。
From the way she avoided the topic, I inferred that something was wrong, even though she didn’t say it directly.
从她回避这个话题的方式,我推断出出了些问题,尽管她并没有直接说出来。
来自拉丁语 inferre,意为“带入、引入、提出”,由 **in-**(“进入”)+ ferre(“携带、带来”)组成。后来在英语中发展为“把信息‘带入’思考,从而得出结论”的含义。