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标 题: Glossary of Usage(25)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Fri May 19 10:11:10 2000), 转信
发信人: nostalgia (寂寞旅程), 信区: EnglishWorld
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu May 18 15:54:26 2000)
摘自Little Brown Handbook
data
The plural of datum(meaning "fact"): Out of all the data generated
by these experiments, not one datum supports our hypothesis. Usually,
a more common term such as fact, result, or figure is prefered to
datum. Though data is often used as a singular noun, most careful
writers still treat it as plural: The data fail (not fails) to support
the hypothesis.
Remark: 注意data是复数名词。
device, devise
Device is the noun, and devise is the verb: Can you devise some device
for getting his attention.
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