implied

英 [ɪmˈplaɪd]

美 [ɪmˈplaɪd]

v.  含有…的意思; 暗示; 暗指; 说明; 表明; 必然包含; 使有必要
imply的过去分词和过去式

过去式：implied　过去分词：implied　

经济

BNC.7355 / COCA.13297

柯林斯词典

• VERB 暗指;暗示
  If youimply thatsomething is the case, you say something which indicates that it is the case in an indirect way.
  1. 'Are you implying that I have something to do with those attacks?' she asked coldly...
     “你在暗示我和那些袭击有关吗？”她冷冷地问。
  2. She felt undermined by the implied criticism.
     她觉得这一含沙射影的批评对自己造成了不利影响。
• VERB 含有…的意思;意味着
  If an event or situationimpliesthat something is the case, it makes you think it likely that it is the case.
  1. Exports in June rose 1.5%, implying that the economy was stronger than many investors had realized...
     6 月份出口上升 1.5%,表明经济比许多投资者所认为的更要坚挺。
  2. A 'frontier-free' Europe implies a greatly increased market for all economic operators.
     “无国界的”欧洲对所有经营者来说都意味着一个大大扩展了的市场。

Do not confuseimplyandinfer. If youimplythat something is the case, you suggest that it is the case without actually saying so.Rose's barrister implied that he had married her for her money.If youinferthat something is the case, you decide that it must be the case because of what you know, but without actually being told.From this simple statement I could infer a lot about his wife.Note that some English speakers useinferwith the same meaning asimply, but this is considered incorrect by careful speakers.
不要混淆 imply 和 infer。imply 指不加以明说, 但通过暗示表明某事为事实：Rose's barrister implied that he had married her for her money (罗丝的律师暗示他当初娶她是为了她的钱财)。infer 表示在没有被明确告知的情况下, 根据已知信息推断某事是事实：From this simple statement I could infer a lot about his wife (从这一简单的陈述中我能推断出关于他妻子的很多情况)。注意：某些英语使用者把 infer 与 imply 等同使用, 但讲究字句的英语使用者认为这种用法不妥。

双语例句

• Both express authority and implied authority can create agency.
  明示授权和默示授权都能产生代理。
• His reply implied a criticism of our work.
  他的回答暗含着对我们工作的批评。
• No right to grant sublicenses is granted or is to be inferred or implied under this Contract.
  在本合同项下，也未给予授予分许可的权利，亦不能从中推断出或暗示有分许可权。
• In such cases, the SEI will be implied from the service implementation class, as in this example.
  在这样的情况下，SEI将隐含于服务实现类中，正如这个示例中所示。
• In text, there is an implied order from the upper left to the lower right.
  在文本中，存在一个隐含的从左上角到右下角的次序。
• They use approaches very different from those implied by the models of Quantitative Finance and decision theory.
  他们所使用的方法，与数量金融学和决策理论模型中所隐含的方法截然不同。
• His words implied discontent.
  他话里带有不满情绪。
• An arbitrary amount of information whose beginning and end are defined or implied.
  一组任意量的信息，其起始和结束是确定的或隐含的。
• It was implied by his non-committal opening remark.
  这意味着那篇模棱两可的开场白的涵义。
• He implied that the president had lied and thereby obstructed justice.
  他暗示总统说了假话，从而妨碍了司法。