/ˈɪmplɪkeɪt/
with obj.
1
- show (someone) to be involved in a crime表明（某人）涉案：
police claims implicated him in many more killings.
警方的声明说他涉嫌另外多起谋杀。
1.1
be implicated in
bear some of the responsibility for (an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one)对…负一定责任（尤指罪行或有害行为）：the team believe he is heavily implicated in the bombing
工作队相信他对爆炸事件负有重大责任
a chemical implicated in ozone depletion.
对臭氧损耗负有一定责任的一种化学品。
2
- with clause convey (a meaning or intention) indirectly through what one says, rather than stating it explicitly暗指, 暗示：
by saying that coffee would keep her awake, Mary implicated that she didn't want any.
玛丽说咖啡会让她睡不着, 以此暗示她不要。
派生词
implicative
/ɪmˈplɪkətɪv/ adjectiveimplicatively
adverb词源
late Middle English: from Latin implicatus 'folded in'， past participle of implicare （see IMPLY）. The original sense was 'entwine， entangle'; compare with EMPLOY and IMPLY. The earliest modern sense (sense 2)， dates from the early 17th cent., but appears earlier in IMPLICATION.