事實指向某個結論
摺在裡面的東西這次不是誰的用意，而是一個事實自然指出的方向：沒有人在說話，但線索擺在那裡。
suggest, indicate · verb · C1
if a fact or an event implies something, it makes people think that thing is probably true.
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One way to hold it: the meaning is folded inside, not laid out on the table. Nobody said it in plain words, but it is in there — in how the sentence was phrased, in what a fact points to, in what one thing must bring with it. The listener has to unfold it.
可以想成意思是摺在裡面的，沒有攤開來放在桌上：沒有人明講，但它就在那裡——藏在話的說法裡、藏在一個事實指向的方向裡、…更多收起
可以想成意思是摺在裡面的，沒有攤開來放在桌上：沒有人明講，但它就在那裡——藏在話的說法裡、藏在一個事實指向的方向裡、藏在「有這個就一定有那個」的關係裡。要由聽的人自己把它打開。From the picture
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hint at · verb · B2
to let someone know what you mean without saying it in plain words.
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
IMPLYnoun
- 1
human-scienceslogicmathematicsA logic gate that implements material implication.
implyverb/ɪmˈplaɪ/
- 1
To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
- Correlation does not imply causation
- The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal.
- 2
To suggest by logical inference.
- When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown.
- 3
To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement.
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
- The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent.
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archaicTo enfold, entangle.
- And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。