- [countable]
something that you can find out indirectly from what you already know 推断的结果；结论 to draw/make inferences from the data 根据资料推论出结果 The clear inference is that the universe is expanding. 显然结论是宇宙在扩大。
Collocations Scientific researchScientific research 科学研究 Theory 理论 - formulate/advance a theory/hypothesis
创立理论；提出假设 - build/construct/create/develop a simple/theoretical/mathematical model
创立一个简单／理论／数学模型 - develop/establish/provide/use a theoretical/conceptual framework
创立／建立／提供／使用理论／概念框架 - advance/argue/develop the thesis that…
提出／论证／详尽阐述…的论题 - explore an idea/a concept/a hypothesis
探讨一个想法／概念／假设 - make a prediction/an inference
预测；推断 - base a prediction/your calculations on something
基于…做出预测／估算 - investigate/evaluate/accept/challenge/reject a theory/hypothesis/model
研究／评估／接受／质疑／拒绝接受一个理论／假设／模型
Experiment 实验 - design an experiment/a questionnaire/a study/a test
设计一项实验／问卷／研究／测试 - do research/an experiment/an analysis
做研究／实验／分析 - make observations/measurements/calculations
观察；测量；计算 - carry out/conduct/perform an experiment/a test/a longitudinal study/observations/clinical trials
进行实验／测试／纵向研究／观察／临床试验 - run an experiment/a simulation/clinical trials
进行实验／模拟／临床试验 - repeat an experiment/a test/an analysis
重做实验／测试／分析 - replicate a study/the results/the findings
做相同的研究；得出同样的结果／调查结果 - observe/study/examine/investigate/assess a pattern/a process/a behaviour
- fund/support the research/project/study
资助／支持研究／项目／专题研究 - seek/provide/get/secure funding for research
寻求／提供／得到／争取到研究资金
Results 结果 - collect/gather/extract data/information
收集／提取数据／信息 - yield data/evidence/similar findings/the same results
得到数据／证据／类似调查结果／相同结果 - analyse/examine the data/soil samples/a specimen
分析／考查数据／土壤样本／样本 - consider/compare/interpret the results/findings
思考／比较／解释结果／调查结果 - fit the data/model
与数据／模型相符合 - confirm/support/verify a prediction/a hypothesis/the results/the findings
证实／支持／核实预测／假设／结果／调查结果 - prove a conjecture/hypothesis/theorem
证明猜测／假设／定理 - draw/make/reach the same conclusions
得出同样的结论 - read/review the records/literature
阅读／评论记录／文献 - describe/report an experiment/a study
描述／报告一项实验／研究 - present/publish/summarize the results/findings
提交／公布／总结结果／调查结果 - present/publish/read/review/cite a paper in a scientific journal
向科学杂志提交一篇论文；在科学杂志发表一篇论文；阅读／评论／引用科学杂志上的一篇论文
Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentb2The value of data depends on our skill in drawing inferences from it. 数据的价值取决于我们从中作出推论的能力。 inferences based on their answers to a number of set questions 根据他们对一些固定问题的回答而得出的推论 There are certain inferences we can draw about the origins of language. 关于语言的起源，我们可以得出某些推论。 What inferences can we draw from this data? 我们从这个数据中能推断出什么？
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fair
- logical
- reasonable
- …
- draw
- make
- allow
- …
- be based on something
- inference about
- inference from
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the act or process of forming an opinion, based on what you already know 推断；推理；推论 - by inference
If he is guilty then, by inference, so is his wife (= it is logical to think so, from the same evidence). 如果他有罪，那么由此可以推断他的妻子也同样有罪。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fair
- logical
- reasonable
- …
- draw
- make
- allow
- …
- be based on something
- inference about
- inference from
- by inference
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin inferentia, from inferent- ‘bringing in’, from the verb inferre ‘bring in, bring about’ (in medieval Latin ‘deduce’), from in- ‘into’ + ferre ‘bring’.