One way to hold it: something folded inside something else. Latin implicāre is 'to fold in' — so an implication is whatever is tucked into a statement, an act, or a decision without being laid out flat. Unfold it, and there it is.
From the word’s history
Latin implicāre = in- (in) + plicāre (to fold), i.e. 'to fold in, entangle'. An implication is what has been folded in rather than stated.
字根是拉丁文 implicāre：in-（進去）＋ plicāre（摺）。「往裡摺」這個動作說明了現代三個意思為什麼是一家人——沒說出的暗示是摺在話裡的，未來的影響是摺在決定裡的，而被 implicate 的人則是被「捲進、纏進」案子裡（同一個字根也給了 complicated「一層層摺在一起」）。
Payload etymology tree (PIE *pel- / *pleḱ- → Latin plicō → implicō), consistent with Wiktionary's entry for implicate/implication.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
implicationnoun/ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
- 1
The act of implicating.
- 2
The state of being implicated.
- 3
A possible, or indirect, effect or result of a decision or action.
- Dumping waste in the river will have serious implications for the environment.
- And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.
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An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
- Dennis Reynolds: What do you mean what do we need a mattress for? Why in the hell do you think we just spent all that money on a boat? The whole purpose of buying the boat in the first place was to get the ladies nice and tipsy topside so we can take 'em to a nice comfortable place below deck and, you know, they can't refuse, because of the implication. Mac: Oh, uh... okay. You had me going there for the first part, the second half kinda threw me. Dennis Reynolds: Well dude, dude, think about it: she's out in the middle of nowhere with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around and what does she see? Nothin' but open ocean. "Ahh, there's nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say 'no'?" Mac: Okay. That... that seems really dark. Dennis Reynolds: Nah, no it's not dark. You're misunderstanding me, bro. Mac: I'm-I think I am. Dennis Reynolds: Yeah, you are, because if the girl said "no" then the answer obviously is "no"... Mac: No, right. Dennis Reynolds: But the thing is she's not gonna say "no", she would never say "no" because of the implication. Mac: Now you've said that word "implication" a couple of times. What implication? Dennis Reynolds: The implication that things might go wrong for her if she refuses to sleep with me. Now, not that things are gonna go wrong for her but she's thinkin' that they will.
- But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
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Logical consequence.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。