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Deduce Person Deduction Dɪ'Duːs V.推论 Mother Deduced Loss

Front deduce
Pron [dɪ'duːs]
Back 【deduce】
v.推论
Mother deduced from my loss of appetites what had happened to the cookies.
母亲从我没有食欲,推知饼干被吃掉了。
Vocab
deducereason by deduction; establish by deduction

To deduce is to figure something out based on what you already know. When you see a person crying, it's easy to deduce that the person is sad. Unless they're happy, of course. Sometimes happy people cry.

Derived from the Latin ducere, meaning "to lead," a person who deduces something is "leading" their mind from one idea to the next. Deduction is a noun from the verb deduce: it's what we call something that we learn when we deduce. Sherlock Holmes, the famous investigator created by Arthur Conan Doyle, was a master of deduction. He could deduce from a few small clues all of the facts of a murder case.

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