Data Information English Plural Noun 英[ˈdeɪtə 美[ˈdetə ˈdætə

英[ˈdeɪtə] 美[ˈdetə, ˈdætə, ˈdɑtə]

n.资料，材料;datum的复数;[计算机]数据，资料;从科学实验中提取的价值;

N-UNCOUNT; also N-PLURAL

（尤指可用于分析的）资料，材料，数据（美国英语中通常用作复数名词;在专业或正式的英国英语中有时用作复数名词，有时用作不可数名词)

You can refer to information as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.

例：The study was based on data from 2,100 women...这项研究基于从 2,100 名女性那里收集来的资料。

例：...the latest year for which data is available...有可利用资料的最近的年份

N-UNCOUNT

(可存储并为计算机程序所用的）数据

Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program.

例：You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.可以把大量的数据压缩到一张CD-ROM上。