But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. — Carl Sagan
但事实上,一些天才被嘲笑并不“意味着(imply)”所有被嘲笑的都是天才。他们嘲笑哥伦布,他们嘲笑富尔顿,他们嘲笑莱特兄弟。但他们也嘲笑博若小丑。— Carl Sagan
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
我并未暗示(imply)大多数工业事故是由于放纵导致的。当然,仅靠节制的确从来没有减少其发生的数量。— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Infer
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle
逻辑学家可以从一滴水中推断出(infer)其可能来源于大西洋或尼亚加拉大,而不必看到或亲耳听到其他的论断。— Arthur Conan Doyle
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
在很大程度上,我们可以从语言来推测(infer)民族精神。从某种程度而言,语言是一种纪念碑,以至每个历经数百年的独立民族都可以贡献出一个石碑。— Ralph Waldo Emerson