deduce UK [dɪ'dju:s] US [-'du:s] verb transitive ■to reach an answer or a decision by thinking carefully about the known facts 推断,推论•We cannot deduce very much from these figures.我们无法从这些数字中推断出太多东西。 •[+ that] The police have deduced that he must have left his apartment yesterday evening.警方推断他肯定是在昨天晚上离开公寓的。 |